Originally Posted by
bean
By the way, there was no merger between Caledonian and BUA. Caledonian took them over as recommended by the Edwards commitee on future air transport in 1969 which was fully supported by the Labour and succeeding Conservative governments
I knew that I had written it incorrectly when I typed it but thought it was rather irrelevant to spell it out in the way that you have as I knew others would know otherwise.
Being a huge BCAL fan I should have known otherwise and put more effort in explaining the takeover rather than the merger.