Released in 1946 after a successful test flight a year earlier, the Bristol Type 170 Freighter was a product of the rapid advance of technological development ushered in by the 1939-1945 conflict.

The plane's success saw thousands of cross-channel flights carried out in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Until production was ceased in 1958, a total of 214 aircraft were built, including both the original version and subsequent variants, such as the larger Superfreighter, which could carry 20 passengers and three cars at any one time.

The plane was also used by foreign air forces, including those of Argentina, Burma, Canada, New Zealand and Pakistan.




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By 1954, main operating airline Silver City averaged an incredible 2,970 landings and take-offs per aircraft within the fleet.

This worked out at a little more than eight trips per day on every day of that year.

The plane was instantly recognisable thanks to its rounded nose doors ahead of a 'boxy' fuselage.

A car being loaded on to one of the planes for a flight to Dublin in 1960.

Oyibo was well developed even before this shithole got her independence yet we are still clamouring for old fossils to rule us in this age

A Bristol Freighter operated by Aer Lingus being loaded through the clamshell nose doors in 1952.

A 1945 advert for the plane said: 'The "Bristol" Freighter is here and it is now being demonstrated in Canada.

'A new type of aircraft ideal for bush flying, air freight or passenger service.'

'Power for power it has more cargo space and carrying capacity than any other cargo aircraft.'

It said the plane was built to carry 'large payloads at low cost' and added that the creation was 'literally a freight car with wings'


A 1946 advert for the then newly-released Bristol Freighter said it was set to go on several demonstration tours across North and South America.

A Silver City Airways advert for the Bristol Freighter on the back of a September 1953 issue of 'The Aeroplane' magazine.

In 1956, Prince Philip flew on a plane which was exporting two sports cars to France.

The first flight with a car took place in July 1948, between Lympne in Kent and Le Touquet, near Calais in northern France.

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A retired Bristol Freighter at the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Canada.

A retired Bristol Freighter is seen in New Zealand.

The country, which had used the planes as part of its air force, retired them in the 1970s.

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We are yet to retire our own here. Nah crash dey end them.

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Guys where far developed before this shithole country