Planemike: I was busy scripting my post (above) when yours came in so I didn't see it - otherwise I woud have suspended mine for a time.
Anyway, many thanks for this information. It is great to have the registrations of the 'British Djinns' and to know a little more of what they were up to. Bravo!
How on earth you could make out G-ACZP from that lot I don't know, but well done!
De Havilland Express G-ACZP at Coventry on 12th July 1958
First bought by Jersey Airways in 1934 then onto Railway Air Services (1940), Skytravel (1946), Bowmaker (1948), Lancashire Aircraft Corporation (1951), Silver City Airways (1957) and finally Vivian Hampson Bellamy in 1958.
My late father owned a De Havilland Rapide - flying it solo on one occasion from Stockholm to Casablanca; to visit my mother whom he was courting at the time. He later traded it for a Dove. I remember him saying that the Rapide's radio set was as large as a small set of draws! (The furniture kind).
New Year's greetings indeed!