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1924 AT&T becomes Imperial Airways when four main fledgling airlines - Instone, Handley Page, Daimler Airways (a successor to AT&T), and British Air Marine Navigad Navigation Company Limited - merge to form Imperial.
A Sir Frederick Handley Page B Sir Joseph Halifax C Sir Michael Fields D Sir Horace Brown 8.
In 1924, Britain's four main fledgling airlines, which had by then evolved into Instone, Handley Page, Daimler Airways (a successor to AT&T), and British Air Marine Navigation Company Limited, merged to form Imperial Airways Limited.
Sir Frederick Handley Page's Wraith Saloon was the last of just 491 that were built before the outbreak of hostilities.
The planes were not lumbering Lancasters but slow and vulnerable Handley Page Hampden medium bombers.
However, the longest lasting and most popular were the weekend flights to Jersey using turbo prop Vickers viscounts and Handley Page heralds and finally DC 9 jets.
It was at 4pm on October 5, 1932, when the first aircraft, Hanno - a British-made, four-propeller Handley Page HP42 biplane - landed in Sharjah from Gwadar (now part of Pakistan).
This was Flight Lieutenant Donald Roberts flying a Handley Page Hastings, a fourengined Sixties transport plane that Airfix used to do so well.
In 1963, the company had 250 employees, operated two aircraft -- a Handley Page Dart Herald and a DC7 -- and was flying to three destinations: Beirut, Kuwait and Cairo.
The historic moment was celebrated by Emirates Post with staff at Al Mahatta Museum to mark the landing 86 years ago of a Hanno H 42 (Hannibal Class) built by Handley Page, a plane owned by British Imperial Airways.
More than 660 Handley Page Halifax bombers and 498 Bristol Beaufighter aircraft were built at Fairey's northern factories.
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