Painted in oils on canvas. 1997. 450mm x 600mm.

‘International taxi’

From 1934 until the outbreak of the war in 1939, Phillips & Powis built a succession of cabin monoplanes designed by FG Miles around a basic wooden structure similar to that used for the original 1933 Hawk.

Largest of these were the 5-seat Merlins, of which four were built to provide charter services for companies in Britain, India and Australia.

In this painting - the first I ever produced in oils - the prototype Merlin is seen in 1937 on a charter flight from Britain to Abyssinia at the time of the invasion of that country by the Italians.

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