Originally Posted by
Chris Scott
Quote from WHBM:
"If you are on BE 140 departing Heathrow 0925..."
Can't confirm that but if so the flight would have been running at least half an hour late?
According to Wiki, the Elizabethans had been replaced by Viscounts on the Rome route in 1954...
So much for Wiki-wotsit's simplistic view of the world. There were some Ambassadors still scheduled on the route in early 1958 (here), though I'm sure some of the Viscount's substitutions had taken place some years earlier. They mainly seem to have been kept on the lengthy Malta run to position them out to run the Malta Airlines local routes that BEA operated under contract.
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...58/be58-10.jpg