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British Overseas Airways Corporation

 Organization

Historical Note

British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. In 1974 the airline merged with British European Airways to form British Airways.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23
Abstract

The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.

Dates: 1910s-2020s

Sally (Harris) Hodgson Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2019-10-27
Content Description The Sally (Harris) Hodgson Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection documenting Hodgson's career as a flight attendant in the mid-twentieth century in the United Kingdom. Materials include her log book from 1957-1960 with flights primarily in Europe; five black-and-white photographs of various sizes of Hodgson in her uniforms from Air Kruise, Silver City Airways, and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC); undated clippings with pictures of her and colleagues; a letter...
Dates: 1957-1964

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