AV I Bristol Brabazon and Havilland Comet

AV I Bristol Brabazon and Havilland Comet

 

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Number AV I
Name Bristol Brabazon and Havilland Comet
First year published 1949
Publisher Micromodels
Number of cards 6
Size of cards 9 x 13 cm
Scale Brabazon 1 : 400
Comet 1 : 200
Description First isssued in late 1949 at 1/8d. Catalogued as out of print during 1952.
Re-issued in 1953 at the price of 2/6d.
The cards have been printed in silver.
No stocks passed to Broadway Approvals in 1956.

This is another Heighway topical model as both Brabazon and Comet were big news in 1949. The Brabazon being the world’s largest civil land plane, and the Comet was the world’s first jet airliner.

Micromodels London has designed a wrapper, and has the intention to publish the model in the near future.