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Midland & Scottish Air Ferries, the Glossary

Midland & Scottish Air Ferries was Scotland's first airline, operating from 1933 to 1934.^[1]

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Airlines established in 1933
Aviation in Scotland
Defunct airlines of Scotland

Air medical services

Air medical services are the use of aircraft, including both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to provide various kinds of medical care, especially prehospital, emergency and critical care to patients during aeromedical evacuation and rescue operations.

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Air-Britain

Air-Britain, traditionally sub-titled 'The International Association of Aviation Enthusiasts', is a non-profit aviation society founded in July 1948.

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Airdrie, North Lanarkshire

Airdrie (Airdrie; An t-Àrd Ruigh) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Airspeed Ferry

The Airspeed AS.4 Ferry was three-engined ten-seat biplane airliner designed and built by the British aircraft manufacturer Airspeed Limited.

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Allied Airways

Allied Airways was a UK airline based at Aberdeen, Scotland. Midland & Scottish Air Ferries and Allied Airways are aviation in Scotland and defunct airlines of Scotland.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Avro

Avro (an initialism of the founder's name) was a British aircraft manufacturer.

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Avro 618 Ten

The Avro 618 Ten or X was a passenger transport aircraft of the 1930s.

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Avro 642 Eighteen

The Avro 642 Eighteen was a 1930s British monoplane airliner.

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Avro 643 Cadet

The Avro Cadet is a single-engined British biplane trainer designed and built by Avro in the 1930s as a smaller development of the Avro Tutor for civil use.

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Avro Club Cadet

The Avro Club Cadet was a 1930s single-engined British biplane trainer aircraft, designed and built by Avro as a development of the earlier Cadet.

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Barra

Barra (Barraigh or Eilean Bharraigh; Barra) is an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by the Vatersay Causeway.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Belfast International Airport

Belfast International Airport is an airport northwest of Belfast in Northern Ireland, and is the main airport for the city of Belfast.

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Bentley Speed Six

The Bentley 6½ Litre and the high-performance Bentley Speed Six were rolling chassis produced by Bentley from 1926 to 1930.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort town in Lancashire, England.

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Blackpool Illuminations

Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire.

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Bowmore

Bowmore (Bogh Mòr, 'Big Bend') is a small town on the Scottish island of Islay.

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Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon

Brian Edmund "Bug" Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon (7 December 1903 – 13 July 1978), was a British racing driver, company director, baronet and peer.

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Bridgend

Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just Pen-y-bont, meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea.

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Bridgend, Islay

Bridgend (Beul an Àtha) is a village on the Inner Hebrides island of Islay off the western coast of Scotland at the tip of Loch Indaal.

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British Industries Fair

The British Industries Fair was an exhibition centre in Birmingham, England.

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Broad Law

Broad Law is a hill in the Manor Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland.

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Campbeltown

Campbeltown (Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or Ceann Locha) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Castle Bromwich Aerodrome

Castle Bromwich Aerodrome was an early airfield, situated to the north of Castle Bromwich in the West Midlands of England.

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Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry

Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was a British peer and politician.

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Crilly Airways

Crilly Airways Ltd was a former British airline founded by entrepreneur Frederick Leo Crilly.

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De Havilland DH.60 Moth

The de Havilland DH.60 Moth is a 1920s British two-seat touring and training aircraft that was developed into a series of aircraft by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.

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De Havilland Dragon

The de Havilland DH.84 Dragon is a successful small commercial aircraft that was designed and built by the de Havilland company.

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De Havilland Fox Moth

The DH.83 Fox Moth is a small biplane passenger aircraft from the 1930s powered by a single de Havilland Gipsy Major I inline inverted engine, manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Eric Gandar Dower

Eric Leslie Gandar Dower (1894 – 4 October 1987) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and businessman.

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Francis Shelmerdine

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Claude Shelmerdine (25 October 1881 – July 1945) was a senior officer in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and a civil servant working in connection with civil aviation in the post-war years.

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General Aircraft Monospar

The General Aircraft Monospar was a family of touring and utility aircraft designed and built by the British aviation company General Aircraft Ltd (GAL).

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glasgow Prestwick Airport

Glasgow Prestwick Airport, commonly referred to as Prestwick Airport, is an international airport serving the west of Scotland, situated northeast of the town of Prestwick Scotland, and southwest of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Hanover

Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Heavy cruiser

A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches) in calibre, whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

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Highland Airways

Highland Airways was an airline based in Inverness, Scotland. Midland & Scottish Air Ferries and Highland Airways are aviation in Scotland and defunct airlines of Scotland.

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Highland Airways Limited

Highland Airways Limited was established in Inverness, Scotland, by Ted Fresson in 1933 to provide passenger and freight air services between the Scottish mainland and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland, and between their islands. Midland & Scottish Air Ferries and Highland Airways Limited are airlines established in 1933, aviation in Scotland and defunct airlines of Scotland.

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Hillman's Airways

Hillman's Airways was a 1930s British airline which later became part of British Airways.

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HMS Frobisher (D81)

HMS Frobisher was one of five heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War.

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Inner Hebrides

The Inner Hebrides (the Inner Isles) is an archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Islay

Islay (Ìle, Ila) is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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KLM

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, or simply KLM (an abbreviation for their official name Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.), is the flag carrier of the Netherlands.

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List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom

This is a list of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool John Lennon Airport

Liverpool John Lennon Airport is an international airport in Liverpool, England, on the estuary of the River Mersey south-east of Liverpool city centre.

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Loch Ness

Loch Ness (Loch Nis) is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately southwest of Inverness.

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Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster (Uilebheist Loch Nis), affectionately known as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain.

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Merionethshire

Until 1974, Merionethshire or Merioneth (Meirionnydd or Sir Feirionnydd) was an administrative county in the north-west of Wales, later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Monkton, South Ayrshire

Monkton is a small village in the parish of Monkton and Prestwick in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Mrs Victor Bruce

Mildred Mary Petre (10 November 1895 – 21 May 1990) was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, successful businesswoman.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Northern & Scottish Airways

Northern & Scottish Airways was a regional airline established in Glasgow in 1934. Midland & Scottish Air Ferries and Northern & Scottish Airways are aviation in Scotland and defunct airlines of Scotland.

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Outer Hebrides

The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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Paris–Le Bourget Airport

Paris–Le Bourget Airport (Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget) is an airport located within portions of the communes of Le Bourget, Bonneuil-en-France, Dugny and Gonesse, north-northeast of Paris, France.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.

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RAF Hooton Park

Royal Air Force Hooton Park or more simply RAF Hooton Park, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, is a former Royal Air Force station originally built for the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 as a training aerodrome for pilots in the First World War.

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Railway Air Services

Railway Air Services (RAS) was a British airline formed in March 1934 by the Big Four railway companies (the GWR, LMS, LNER and SR) and Imperial Airways.

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Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_%26_Scottish_Air_Ferries

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See also

Airlines established in 1933

Aviation in Scotland

Defunct airlines of Scotland

References