7mm On Heather's Workbench - one final time, with feeling

[simond]

When one could smoke on planes, it was usually the three rearmost rows of each cabin.

Except TAP, where it was the whole of the starboard side…

 

[Pete_S]

Pete (@Pete_S) can you help Heather?

Not really - I've the same references as you. I reckon that @LarryG has done the heavy lifting here & I wouldn't argue with his conclusions.
All I'd add is that the transfers are really only visible on the compartment side; on the corridor side they'd be affixed to the corridor screen quarterlights, so hard to see from the outside.

 

[daifly]

Interesting that both 'Smoking' transfers carry 'sponsorship' adverts aimed at compartment occupants.
Dave

 

[simond]

Interesting that both 'Smoking' transfers carry 'sponsorship' adverts aimed at compartment occupants.
Dave

Product placement….

there‘s nowt new there!

 

[AJC]

Product placement….

there‘s nowt new there!

Will’s being Bristol-based, of course (was there overlap at board level?), and this is the company that brought us Lloyds A1 or whatever it was as a name for a Castle?

Adam

 

[jonte]

That photo is simply crying out for captions.

He looks a right cad.

Apologies, Heather, for the thread hijack.

jonte

 

[jonte]

“I say……can’t ‘storp’, just orf to give Jerry a darned good thrashing in the ol’ Hurryi. Six of the best, ‘trisers dine’! Barf, barf! Pick you up tomorrow in the MG, seven o’ clock sharp. Wear something, ahum, light. By the way, Delightful, what’s your name?”.

(With apologies to the Black Adder writers).

jonte

 

[Heather Kay]

Another one under way.



That leaves the Collet to do. Then the sides can be varnished and another step along the road to completion.

It’s interesting the GWR had a blanket no smoking policy from the outset. Presumably public opinion brought the change in the early 20th century. That the Powers That Be decided to provide smoking rather than NON-smoking compartments says a lot about the GWR all round!

 

[LarryG]

As we now realise after the smoking ban, smoking didn't half have an affect on upholstery and wall décor. I saw the affect on the upper deck of the bus I purchased for preservation and so it's easy to see why the GWR reigned against allowing passenger to smoke in its carriages.

 

[Phil O]

The Castle Inn at Lydford, built an extension to the bar, and spent quite a bit on trying to get the ceiling to match the the existing ceiling which possibly had a century or more of cigarette and log fire smoke on it, within a couple years or so, the extension had blended in quite well.