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Post by bhk on Sept 12, 2006 2:00:44 GMT -5
In the interests of recreating some olde-worlde schedules I am looking at obtaining a few 1930's timetables for the above companies. I have my bid in for two from Imperial; the England - Africa schedules for 1931 and the England - Australia schedules for 1938. The QANTAS item is for their schedules in 1937. I'd love to buy more, particularly for Europe - there was one for Lufthansa 1936, the year of the Berlin Olympics, which went for the equivalent of the national debt of Kanzakistan - but the costs are usually pretty steep. As it is, if I'm successful with the three mentioned above it will total over AU$160.00 so I have to be a bit selective, to say the least! Bruce
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Post by jimslost on Sept 12, 2006 8:06:18 GMT -5
Yikes! Maybe we should be a bit more selective of how we dispose of the detritus of our daily lives; there may be gold amongst the rubble.
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Post by leylandspurr on Sept 12, 2006 11:24:51 GMT -5
Bruce, Is this the sort of thing you mean? www.image-upload.net/files/3954/Imperial Airways/Kenya.jpg[/IMG] If it's not clear enough I could try harder! There may also be more, would you like me to search? Leyland
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Post by cptroyce on Sept 12, 2006 13:25:30 GMT -5
Bruce - There are many for sale on Ebay as apparently your are aware..most seem to sell for $60-$80 US. I recently purchased one Imperial timetable for Africa and onward to Australia I believe, for Summer 1937. Also purchased a (rare..so I'm told) Regis Air Afrique timetable for 1935 ( Dakar- Ft Lamy- Congo etc.) I'd be happy to scan them and send to you via email, if you'd like? Still inflight with your Imperial Africa route..headed to Juba..no time compression. The "tyranny of distance" indeed ! Regards, Royce
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Post by bhk on Sept 12, 2006 16:25:26 GMT -5
LeylandSimilar, but not the same. These are tri-fold, brochure-sized devices that were available from travel-agents and suchlike. Here's a link to the type of thing I mean............. www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/list.htmI've emailed these chaps twice to ask if they could supply me info extracted from several timetables -and offering to pay for the data - but I haven't even received the courtesy of a reply. I'm not a collector of these - well, not intentionally, anyway. - but am prepared to pay for the brochures if necessary. The information in the bottom-right corner of your pamphlet, Leyland, is exactly the thing I'm after and the travel brochure/timetable contains that info for all the African services offered by the airline for that year, not only for the top-to-bottom route. It also includes the route to India. This is what I've been outbid on - but I'll pop in another sensible (!) offer before the day is out ..... cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=004&item=140026385396&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1RoyceYes, Ebay is where I've set my sights, as you would be aware from the comments above for Leyland. And the prices you mention are typical; I think the ones I've bid on are slightly under that....at the moment. I would be delighted to accept your kind offer for scans of the actual date/time/where-to section, Royce. They only have to be readable, that's all. No need for high definition or colour. (That was all I wanted from the Timetable Blokes but......no response). Enjoy your journey.....you should make Cape Town before the cricket season commences! ;D regards, Bruce.
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Post by leylandspurr on Sept 12, 2006 18:43:02 GMT -5
Bruce, remember I said I had a disk of pix and data for Imperial Airways? Well both of these two are from that disk, if this is the sort of thing - I can zip up the whole lot (100Mb -unzipped - roughly)and send to you. Do you use winzip or WinRAR? I have been trying a site 'Jinx' mentioned, have a look at: www.yousendit.com/Where you can send and receive up to 100Mb free, you just need to log on with an email address and a password, tell me the email address and I will deposit a file or files there - you will get an email when they are ready for download, log onto the site amd sit back and wait for the download to be completed. Want to try? www.image-upload.net/files/3954/Imperial Airways/00000148.jpg[/IMG] Leyland
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Post by bhk on Sept 13, 2006 2:48:03 GMT -5
Bruce, remember I said I had a disk of pix and data for Imperial Airways? Well both of these two are from that disk, if this is the sort of thing - I can zip up the whole lot (100Mb -unzipped - roughly)and send to you. Do you use winzip or WinRAR?.... Wow! Gee.....that's exactly what I'm looking for, Leyland. Thanks for the offer. I use both WinZip and WinRAR...or, to be more correct, I have both... so that it doesn't matter what format the compressed file takes. Use whatever compresses to the smallest size. Instead of popping it onto that site, how about I create a folder for you on my site and you can log in there and make your deposit? I don't wish to appear patronising but are you familiar with FTP and any programs (such as WS_FTP) for uploading? Let me know and I'll email you the necessary details. Regards, Bruce.
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Post by leylandspurr on Sept 13, 2006 3:03:57 GMT -5
You're right Bruce I know nowt about uploading, so you will have to teach me from basics! Let me know how to proceed and the file will be on it's way forthwith. You have my scottishnet address already I think? Leyland
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Post by bhk on Sept 13, 2006 16:24:15 GMT -5
Leyland, I've emailed you.
Incidentally....the three timetables which I was hopeful of getting have gone out the door at prices much too great for me to even consider, as a non-collector.
Regards, Bruce.
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Post by jimslost on Sept 13, 2006 21:33:42 GMT -5
Talk about far away places with strange sounding names .... Or chilling names, like Cownpore. I wonder what people think/thought about when they visited such places?
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Post by Bookman on Sept 13, 2006 22:10:23 GMT -5
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Post by bhk on Sept 13, 2006 23:31:21 GMT -5
Kevin, Fantastic! I had not discovered that.......thank you so much for bringing it to my attention. Regards, Bruce
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Post by Bookman on Sept 14, 2006 18:56:38 GMT -5
Bruce, You're very welcome, I'm sure. BTW, I have next to my desk here a small scroll (photocopies full-scale reproduction about 4 feet long) that is a period (published 1920) schematic map of the Cairo to Capetown route. I was wondering if you'd have any interest? If you think it's useful, I'll create a Beacon page and explain it... link to bigger image2:www.oldbeacon.com/temp/map1.jpgwww.oldbeacon.com/temp/map2.jpg
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Post by bhk on Sept 15, 2006 4:09:06 GMT -5
I was wondering if you'd have any interest?..... If you think it's useful, I'll create a Beacon page and explain it... Please, Kevin, I'd be very interested. Bruce
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Post by reddog on Sept 15, 2006 16:34:41 GMT -5
just saw this in a thread"Anyone Interested" by Willy over at the SOH, thought some may want it here.
A couple of years and several FS9 installs ago, when I had just started having a good handle on doing AI Flights for FS2004, I did a set of AI flights using Mike Stone's Handley-Page HP.42 that followed the old historical Imperial Airways routes from London to Cairo, then on to both Capetown and Australia. Anyway, I was digging through some old backup files of mine and found the zip file the other day. I'd thought I'd released it, but apparently I hadn't as it's not here.
If there's interest in it, I'll upload them. I've already reinstalled the file into my Golden Wings install.
Included are special instructions & an AFCAD file for the no-Croydon problem in GW that I've added today as GW wasn't out when I originally did this file.
Willy just checked and the zipfile is at the SOH in FS9 addons.
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