BOAC World Air Routes—Eastern & Western Hemisphere airline map—E.O. Seymour 1949
£520
SKU: P-6-112756
'B.O.A.C. World Air Routes. Eastern Hemisphere // B.O.A.C. World Air Routes. Western Hemisphere.'
‘Linking the Old World and the New’: BOAC’s world in 1949, drawn by E. O. Seymour as two pictorial hemispheres, back to back on one folding sheet. Heavy lines mark the main routes. On the Eastern Hemisphere they run from London by Cairo and Karachi to Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo, on to Sydney and Auckland, and down Africa to Johannesburg. On the Western they cross the Atlantic to New York and Montreal, and fly by Bermuda to the Caribbean and round South America. Qantas, South African Airways and Tasman Empire Airways, named at the foot, were BOAC’s partners on the routes to Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. The thin lines of the ‘affiliated companies’ are BOAC’s regional offshoots: Aden Airways around the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, and British West Indian Airways in the Caribbean. Each face has a compass rose with BOAC’s Speedbird emblem at its heart, red and gold in the Pacific, green and blue in the South Atlantic, among reindeer herders, tigers, kangaroos, Mounties and gauchos.
Size 52 x 78 cm | 20.5 x 30.5 inches
Date Published: 1949 (printer's code 49/101/150m)
Type: Vintage colour-lithographed double-sided folding pictorial airline route map.
Author: Seymour, E. O.
Publication: BOAC World Air Routes
Condition: Good |
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