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

simond

Western Thunderer
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

Western Thunderer
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.

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AJC

Western Thunderer
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
 
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jonte

Western Thunderer
“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

Western Thunderer
Another one under way.

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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!
 
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