In addition to the Viking in the above image one can discern Halifax G-AKBR of Skyflight Ltd a company which had or was just about to cease operations. The Halifax was subsequently registered to Eagle Aviation and scrapped in March 1950. The C47 is slightly more interesting. As far as I can make out it is ZS-AVL of Pan African Air Charter , one of several dodgy South African outfits of the time offering Passenger charters to South Africa from Bovingdon, Blackbushe and Croydon. It could even be that Pan African were about to pack up at the time this photograph was taken.
Douglas DC-3 C-47 Pan African Air Charter
https://www.baaa-acro.com/operator/p...an-air-charter
This same aircraft (12981) ZS-AVL was next sold in 1950 to The Union of Burma Airways and registered as XY-ACT.
XY-ACT was hi-jacked in 1954.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28014394 The C47 depicted in this link is not the hi-jacked aircraft.
The Captain concerned was Alex Hare who I came to know when he joined Air Anglia in the early seventies to fly the Dakotas. He owned a very smart Aston Martin. I can't remember now whether it was a DB5 or DB6. He was one of the old school and a real gent. I believe he was of Ukranian birth.
Captain and Mrs Hare can be seen here. Photo credit the late Captain Charles 'Chic' Eather.
At Rangoon in 1975. Photo Brian Nichols with thanks.
XY-ACT saw good service in Burma and was then sold in 1978 to Ethiopian Airlines where it operated as ET-AGW. Unfortunately it was written off in a minor landing accident on a freight flight at Bahar Dah, Ethiopia in January 1981. Sadly I've been unable to find an image of her in Ethiopia but here are a couple of her stable-mates photographed at Addis in 1988.
Photo credit Ron Mak.
Creeping further you might enjoy this - go to Aviation Gallery:http://www.chingchic.