Southend Flying Services Ltd 1934-ish

[colinconxa]

My complete cigarette card "Album of Aeroplanes (Civil)" issued by Players cigarettes published about 1938 shows the Shorts Scion with a registration G-ACJI. After a descriptive text it says one of these acft operated between Southend and Rochester and "successfully carried thouands of passengers between the two towns". I now know the type was built at Rochester, and somewhere else I found reference to a Scion G-ADDN being operated by Southend Flying Services Ltd, but nothing more.

Do any Southenders (or Rochesterians) know anything of this operator or did the sands of time and clouds of war wash all away?

[Self loading bear]

Crilly Airways, which operated services between several cities in England at the time using DH.86 Dragon airliners, became the first airline and operated a Clacton-Southend-Margate route. Another of the first airlines at Southend was Thames Air Ferry, which flew a single de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth biplane on a Southend to Rochester service.

two other companies as found on:
Essex Life (https://www.essexlifemag.co.uk/out-about/places/london-southend-airport-80-years-on-1-3779112)

SLB