
Two photos I found on separate occasions which turned out to be of the same aircraft, both taken at the old airport at Croydon, south of London. G-AAUD registered to Imperial Airways 1930-1940. 'Usual station' listed as Cairo. Named 'Hanno' after the Carthaginian navigator. Wikipedia has some nice photos of her. She was wrecked by a gale while on the ground at Bristol in 1940. Only four HP.42s were built and none of them survived the war. Croydon airport was closed in 1959 and built over with retail outlets. The terminal building survives as a hotel and conference centre.

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