Tie on Baggage Labels.
Tie on Baggage Labels.
Bertie: “Watcha Trev! How’s things? You’ve been a bit quiet lately!”
Trevor: “Bertie… I have told you before. Kindly use my proper name… Trevor. I may appear quiet but, quite honestly, so do most people when in the company of you and Bobby.”
Bertie: “Oooohh err. You are so sensitive. How about doing a story next week?”
Trevor: “That would be most agreeable, Bertie. But, as you will remember, my preference is nostalgia and Bobby’s fascinating childhood. A true schoolboy, growing up in the 1950s. We last wrote about airline sticky labels. It seems that many enjoyed the beautifully presented “stickies” for airline travel back in the 1950s. They were the advertising, ‘Look at me and see where I have been’. Lovely graphics from a bygone age.
But then, there were the ‘tie on’ versions. These were the business end of luggage dispatch. In a world where computers had not been invented. Printed on card and double sided, they had their own place in the manic world of Bobby’s schoolboy collecting. There were far fewer airliners then and only the well off could afford to fly at all. Some of these tie on baggage labels were collected from sources beyond Bobby’s memory. Mostly though from LAP (London Airport), Heathrow now. A fourteen year old schoolboy sneaking around the luggage dispatch areas with sticky fingers. There are quite a lot and I will restrict them to a few to give you the idea… As before, for added interest we have researched the airliners of the day that would have carried such luggage and passengers.”
“IDL” stands for Idlewild . New York’s airport that was later renamed John F Kennedy in 1963.
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, which had its origins in the B29 Superfortress wartime bomber.
Lockheed L749A Constellation.
Sud Aviation SE210 Caravelle. The first airliner to have engines placed on the rear fuselage.
Douglas DC7C. The last piston engined airliner before the advent of jets.
Lockheed L749A Constellation.
Avro York. Derived from the Lancaster bomber.
The wonderful De Havilland Comet.
This the last version, the Comet 4, that corrected all the fallibility of the original Comet. The one that had a number of fatal crashes. By the time this came into service, it was too late and the Americans had taken the market with their larger jets. The Boeing 707 and Douglas DC8.
Cabin Luggage Labels.
Convair 440 Metropolitan.
Convair 440 Metropolitan.
Lighting a Candle for Diddley.
The Vickers Viscount. First airliner that Bobby flew in.
Very nice sample of your collection, Bobbie. Mine is of beer mats, mats from all over Europe, Great Britain, and North America.
Cheers, Jim
The first plane I flew in was a De Haviland Comet owned by Dan Air (remember them?). That was back in 1974. London Gatwick to Bastia in Corsica. A wonderful holiday and I fell in love with Corsica.