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Aviation History
1940
1940 - 2392.PDF
8 Advertisements. AUGUST 29, 1940 x THE FLYING BEDSTEAD" Bedtime Story for R.A.F. Pilots. Tins is a story, chaps, that whacks all your Daddies can tell you about their achievements on the " Flying Bedsteads " of 1915, because REAL bed- steads are factually flying to-day- It all started with the call for scrap metal. People who move in high circles " felt they simply must do something for the chaps who ' bank," spiral and stunt in still higher circles, by surrendering their iron bedsteads (many with knobs on) to the Scrap Merchant for thingummy steel parts for planes. Of course by the time the steel billets reach Reynolds —the " billets-doux " originally attached to the bedsteads have melted with the metal, but next tune you go up— just imagine how you may be occupying the bed (metaphorically, of course) of a VERY HIGH Politician, who may now have to sleep during a Debate instead of afterwards. Makes you think—does'ut it. *Pariiamentary language. BarraqeBALLOON! SPECIAL STEEL TUBES FOR AIRCRAFT REYNOLDS TUBE COMPANY LTD.. TYSELEY, BIRMINGHAM
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