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Old 17th Mar 2013, 23:01
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Hey RedhilPhil, Vickers Viceroy? That was the original name planned for the Viscount, but sensitivities to recent events in India resulted in calling it the Viscount.
There was an Airspeed Viceroy, by-the-way, built in the mid-1930s.

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