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Channel Air Services
A car being driven up a ramp on board a Silver City Airways Bristol Type 170 Superfreighter Mk 32 plane at Lydd Airport, Kent, May 19th 1955. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) After the Second World War cars were transported by air across the English channel so that motorists could drive their own cars on the continent. This service was where Freddie Laker cut his…
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Cross Channel Airlines (2)
The monopoly that Silver City Airways enjoyed in the early 1950s in offering motorists the opportunity to cross the channel by aeroplane was soon disrupted, by the arrival of a competitor and the deployment of other technology developed during the Second World War. Freddie Laker is best known these days as the man who revolutionised transatlantic flights with the launch of his Skytrain service…
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