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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

19th Dec 2020, 12:23

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B.O.A.C. Geoffrey Hargreaves. 1970's

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Posted By Lance Shippey

Dear Gordomac and condor17 Love the drift, and...

Dear Gordomac and condor17
Love the drift, and Geoff would have been very chuffed.
He was tall, wore his reading glasses on the top of his head.
and had a great sense of humour, especially when...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

30th Nov 2020, 14:42

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B.O.A.C. Geoffrey Hargreaves. 1970's

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Posted By Lance Shippey

Hi Gordo, Thanks for info. I had a good laugh...

Hi Gordo,
Thanks for info. I had a good laugh about you CAI episode. I also
had a problem there, but at passport control with a group of U.S.
"Special Tourists". We were flying CAI/AMM and the CAI...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

27th Nov 2020, 11:23

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B.O.A.C. Geoffrey Hargreaves. 1970's

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Posted By Lance Shippey

Hi Gordy, Great to hear that you had a Citroen...

Hi Gordy, Great to hear that you had a Citroen Ami 8. I had my Dyane shipped
CCU/SYD, then two years later W/O in SYD when a drug enhanced Lebanese
driven Holden and a red light on George St. I was...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

24th Nov 2020, 09:46

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B.O.A.C. Geoffrey Hargreaves. 1970's

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Posted By Lance Shippey

Thanks for the kind words Gordo. I thought...

Thanks for the kind words Gordo.
I thought there was something not quite right, when Geoffrey told me
not to drive my French built Citroen Dyane in Tehran. Although the
car had German "z" plates,...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

21st Nov 2020, 17:25

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B.O.A.C. Geoffrey Hargreaves. 1970's

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Posted By Lance Shippey

I remember Geoffrey after a few drinks, listening...

I remember Geoffrey after a few drinks, listening to "Fag-end Lil"
at the piano at the Chelsea Pub in Tehran being very pleased with
himself. He had solved a delicate problem with the "Religious...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

27th Oct 2020, 14:47

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B.O.A.C. Geoffrey Hargreaves. 1970's

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Posted By Lance Shippey

Pensioner Arrives in THR.

Geoffrey can't move an elderly passenger from an R.A.F. Comet 4C at THR.
Although working for B/A as security envoy in THR, he was also closely tied
to "Our Man in Tehran" Sir Antony Parsons,...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

18th Sep 2020, 10:49

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B.O.A.C. Geoffrey Hargreaves. 1970's

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Posted By Lance Shippey

B.O.A.C. Geoffrey Hargreaves. 1970's

I met Geoffrey Hargreaves, at MAN when he was with BA, and I with
BE (S1-11) div. in 1969/70. I left BE./ BA in 1973 for LH in FRA.
Geoffrey moved to BA in THR in a new security posting with B/A....

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