Originally Posted by
Chris Scott
Yes, the first BUA VC10 - a Type 1103 later incorporated into BCAL after Caledonian took over BUA in 1970/71 - replaced Britannias on the weekly BR211 route Gatwick/Entebbe/Ndola/Lusaka-City/Salisbury in October 1964, arriving SAY on a Thursday afternoon and departing the following morning on the reverse route at about 08:00 local time. So the more demanding northbound departure from Ndola for Entebbe would have been at about 11:00 local, WHBM?.
Although I can't find a BUA timetable of the era (used to have them though, inevitably lost over decades in the school-uni-rented flats-first house progression), BOAC very kindly put the BUA VC-10 from Lusaka in their own timetable. Here's 1966. By this time Salisbury has had to be given up, though SAA have stepped into the breach.
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...66/ba66-24.jpg
BR212 - Fridays
Lusaka - 1035
Ndola - 1120/1205
Entebbe - 1515/1615
Gatwick - 2230