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1952
1952 - 2313.PDF
29 AUGUST 1952 FLIGHT as a two-way, year-round service outbreak of war. B.O.A.C. went into battledress for the duration and operated further flying boat services over the North Atlantic. Side by side with this merchant air service, a far greater and more challenging adventure was in the making — the organisation and operation of the famous North Atlantic Return Ferry Service. This B.O.A.C. service began on 24th September, 1941, and was operated between Prestwick and Montreal winter and summer alike throughout the war. Such were the foundations of B.O.A.C.'s transatlantic services between Britain, Canada and the United States. With the end of the war, Constellations began to operate on the London—New York route on 1st July, 1946, and between London and Montreal on 15th April, 1947. The 6th December, 1949, saw the introduction of double-decked Stratocruisers on the London—New York route and between London and Montreal on 23rd April, 1950. This summer, B.O.A.C. is operating twenty-three North Atlantic services a week in each direction between London and New York, Montreal, Boston, and the Caribbean area, providing accommodation for some 1,400 passengers each way. This weekly schedule includes six Tourist Class services to New York and three to Montreal by Constellation airliners. Such is the story of the North Atlantic air route — its infancy, growing pains and coming of age — and of the part, that B.O.A.C. has been proud to play in its development. TO ALL SIX CONTINENTS plY """•,y B'Q'h'C BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION
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