History of BOAC

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The merger of B.E.A.and B.O.A.C. went down like a lead balloon amongst those of us in the lower orders our working practices were so different ,in the central area, we in BEA had merged trades and when we were trained Electrical/ Instrument personell carried out Pre Departure checks, refuelling,an pushbacks which BOAC never did to my knowledge and never changed their working practices and got the same rates of pay. As our Chief Engineer the late John (Polly)Perkins said untill the last old BEA/BOAC engineer dies the old arguments will still rage on.