Bidspirit auction | Travel Poster BOAC Airline Speedbird

Travel Poster BOAC Airline Speedbird Route Map. Original vintage travel map poster - BOAC Speedbird Routes Across the World in association with Qantas Empire Airways to Australia South African Airways to South Africa Tasman Empire Airways to New Zealand - featuring a map of the world with the destination cities marked and the time zones indicated below the title text with the Speedbird logo at the bottom. The British Overseas Airways Corporation / BOAC was the British state airline created in 1940-1946 as the result of a merger, introducing the world's first passenger jets to its service in 1952 and merging again in 1971-1974 to create British Airways / BA. The iconic Speedbird logo was designed for Imperial Airways in 1932 by the English graphic artist Theyre Lee-Elliott (David Lee Theyre Elliott; 1903-1988) and used by BOAC and BA. Horizontal. Printed in Great Britain. Horizontal. Very good condition, folds, creasing. Country of issue: UK, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 46x71, year of printing: 1950s.