Flying to Ireland with a car in the 60's

[cappercallie]

Does anyone remember being able to transport a car to Ireland by plane in the 1960's ? I believe it was a service lasting only a few years. I went with my family and I know it was extremely expensive. Can anyone help ? Many thanks.

[KARL]

You are correct and it might have been from somewhere like Bristol - the same sort of link was also offered from southern England just over the Channel to France. The firm was I think British Air Ferries and if you google that name you will see at http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?a irlinesearch=British%20Air%20Ferries%20-%20BAF &distinct_entry=truethe sort of aircraft that I believe was used on both routes (the bottom one). It is the one that looks eerily close to being a harbinger of the front end of a 747.

[Narolines]

I'm pretty sure the planes were Bristol Freighters. They had two huge nose doors and a ramp for loading wheeled vehicles. I think the cross-channel service flew from Lympne (wasn't it called "The Channel Airbridge" for a time?) - or was it Southend? Maybe both.....

I had a feelng that the Irish service flew from somewhere in Cheshire, but I can't think where offhand, and I may well be wrong - it's a long time ago!

[Narolines]

Silver City Airways, flying from Lydd, was the cross-channel company I was thinking of. Still can't remember the Cheshire-based operation, though........

[cappercallie]

Karl and Narolines many thanks indeed for your answers. I told someone of this ,and they did'nt believe me. I started to question my memory!! |Thanks again :)