WHBM: I really don't need to get into a discussion about the BEA logo in the early days of the Rapide after WW II but here is a photograph of G-AHXW which is exactly as I remember seeing the BEA Rapides at Renfrew in the early 1950s. The photograph comes from my Air-Britain "Rapide Book".
As it so happens, the DH Rapide was the first multi-engined aircraft that I flew in my 53 years of professional flying