OAG / ABC Guide Archive -- February 1976 Indian Airlines

[brabazon]

Does anyone have a good archive of OAG or ABC World Airways Guides or know where one is?

I have a query from a friend in February 1976 Indian Airlines started operating TRV-MLE -- what type did they use?

[davidjohnson6]

brabazon - are you anywhere near London ? If so, you might wish to apply for a reader's card for the British Library near King's Cross / St Pancras. It's an almost certainty that they will have a copy of the OAG from 1976. I'm not sure they will accept your desire to check the aircraft type as being sufficiently good reason to grant you a reader's pass, but it's perhaps worth phoning them to ask

THE BRITISH LIBRARY - The world's knowledge (http://www.bl.uk/)
Registering for a Reader Pass (http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/stp/register/stpregister.html)

Alternatively, if you're near Birmingham, is it possible that the new public library there has a copy of the 1976 OAG ?
Home - Library of Birmingham (http://www.libraryofbirmingham.com/)

[northsands]

I have a June 1976 copy of ABC. This shows twice-weekly frequency TRV-MLE by 748 aircraft. I imagine this type would have been used from the start.

[The SSK]

We have an archive of one volume per season but it's a pain to access. I'm sure our Winter 75/6 would show the same as northsands' June one.

[brabazon]

Thanks all -- I am half between London and Birmingham but good to know they are held in the UK!

[lucveen]

in cleaning up old papers i found the ABC guide of april 1976.
It mentions that TRV MLE was operated on monday and friday with a Hawker Siddely HS748