Originally Posted by Timothy
It includes a button and "wings" from the Instone uniform (plus the information that Instone were the first non-military air operation to introduce uniform) and some timetables which slightly piqued my interest in that they appear to have advertised and priced a route to Prague, but they never seem to have flown it (and then timetables a month later have Prague removed.)
In an article entitled "Wings of Peace" by John Stroud, published in the November 1987 issue of Aeroplane Monthly, John describes the Vickers Vulcan. The Vickers Type 61 Vulcan was a single-engined,single-bay biplane transport aircraft and often ranked as the uglist aeroplane built in Britain.
According to John Stroud's article:-
Instone Air Lines ordered four of these aircraft.G-EBBL, G-EBDH,G-EBEA and G-EBEM However the aircraft was not a success. G-EBBL ran out of fuel and force-landed near Tonbridge on the 23rd June 1922 was rebuilt. G-EBDH crashed at Oxted in August 1922 and returned to Vickers and, due to poor performance, G-EBEA was also returned to Vickers in June 1923. The fourth aircraft on order G-EBEM was cancelled. This left G-EBBL as the only Vulcan remaining in service with Instone.
From the begining of October 1922 Instone Air Line's only route was from London to Brussels and Cologne. Instone had plans to extend its route to Prague and Budapest and on August the 4th 1923. Capt F.L.Barnard flew G-EBBL from Croydon to Prague on a route survey carrying Col W.A.Bristow of Ogilvie & Partners, consulting engineers to Instone. Political problems prevented regular operation of this route.