Variety Club Sunshine Coach................photo from Jack Williams

01 Variety Club
Winter at Gatwick from the web.

02 Gatwick
B-Cal plating cards.............from Derek Jenkins

03 Playing Cards
B-Cal Teddy Photo from Jean Carlyle-Lyon (Jean Wollen/Baxter )

04 - B-Cal Teddy
B-Cal travel holdall from the late 70s still use it for my kilt and sporran. photo by Tom Boyle

05 - Travel Holdall
BCAL copper ashtray hand made in West Africa. Photo by Derek Jenkins

06 - Copper Ashtray
B-Cal Super Executive wash bag as was given to passengers flying in that class/cabin photo by Derek Jenkins

07 - Super Executive
Four different B-Cal ties. photo by Derek Jenkins

08 - B-Cal Ties
During the 1970s and early 1980s, whilst all other BCAL uniformed staff had gold badges, we in Security wore silver badges on our uniforms. We later adopted the standard company gold badges.

09 - Saff Had Gold Badges
toiletry bag still in its virginal state!! from Frank Brejcha

10 - Toiletry Bag
B-Cal Mugs from Derek Jenkins

11 - B-Cal Mugs
BCAL DC10 flying over St Louis USA. photo by Derek Jenkins. This is printed/etched onto a piece of meta, I think aluminium.

12 - St Louis USA
<p>The bus was one of 4 purchased to support the passenger transfer fleet, it is a volvo B10m with Vanhool body. it has a 9.6 litre engine coupled with a ZF HP500 automatic gearbox. Internally it was fitted on the front portion with inward facing tip up seats and the rear was conventional seating it was certified to carry 132 passengers, the main body of the bus was a conventional 12 metre design and the rear trailer was 9 meters and the rear axle was self steering which made it very manoeuvrable but a handful to reverse.<br />           Prior to the delivery of the Volvo we had 2 German left hand drive Mercedes bendis and 2 Leyland DAB bendis the volvos supplemented these. The main purpose was to transfer passengers from aircraft remote parking stands to the main terminal ( prior to North Terminal ) and we frequently used only one bus to clear a BAC 1 11 and on busy periods we had max pax capacity on board when we coached from a Britania Boeing 737 200 series of whom we used to handle.<br />           The internal seating was designed with tip up seats to facilitate stretchers to be loaded and transferred to hospital in the event of a full scale incident which fortunately did not happen, the only incident I recall the vehicles used in emergency anger was when a BA 747 blew a compressor blade on take off causing a take off abort and a pax evacuation which went smoothly without injury.<br />           The vehicles remained in service in BCal livery till the end and were then repainted in BA colours, I think the photo was taken in approximately 1986 </p><p>Thank to Steve Farrer for all the info.</p>

13 B-Cal Bus
Stationery from Frank Brejcha

14 - Stationery
First Class Bag from Frank Brejcha

15 - First Class Bag
B-Cal 1973 Baggage Tag. from Derek Jenkins.

16 - Baggage Tag
B-Cal Security Services Badge.from Derek Jenkins

17 - Security Services
Pen Knife. from Derek Jenkins.

18 - Pen Knife
Passenger Eyeshades. from Derek Jenkins

19 - Eyeshades
Chieftain Club Key Tag. from Derek Jenkins.

20 - Key Tag
pen with leather string. from Derek Jenkins

21 - Pen
Cufflinks. from Derek Jenkins.

22 - Cufflinks
The Astonishing BONE IDOL Rock Band at Glasgow Airport, Argentina Bound. photo from Sir Wilton Shagpile,B.M.K. flickr

23 - BONE IDOL (Rock Band)
Duty Free Bag. from Derek Jenkins.

24 - Duty Free Bag
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