Air Travel. A social history
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- Author(s) Hudson, Kenneth
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1972
- Pages 174pp; illus
- Publisher Adams & Dart
- Place Published Bath
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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An early popular account of social aspects of the industry - 'the present aim is ... to concentrate on the passengers who appear to have been rather ignored so far, to discover what various airlines have done to recruit, please, flatter and subdue them over half a century of operation'. Its chapters are: 'To Paris in two hours twenty minutes'; 'Early years of comfort and sobbery'; 'The airships'; 'Air travel in the 'twenties and 'thirties'; 'Standards on the pre war long distance routes'; 'War years'; 'Flying becomes the norm. Passengers as walking freight'