Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Alan John Cobham NPG D49310

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer, issued by Carreras Tobacco Company

Cobham joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and was commissioned as an instructor. After the war he worked for De Havilland as a test pilot, and made his name in long-distance flights to Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar, 1924), the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1925-6) and Australia (1926), establishing air routes for Imperial Airways. From the 1930s he pioneered the development of in-flight refuelling, and set up a company to develop its potential. As a taxi-pilot giving commercial 'joyrides', and through... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.