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Title: Renaucourt-Tugny |
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Description: Paris - London Service. Compagnie des Grands Express Aeriens. This 1920 poster by Renaucourt-Tugny for Compagnie des Grands Express Aeriens (C.G.E.A.) shows a Farman "Goliath" biplane in the air between the white cliffs of Dover and a French manor house. C.G.E.A. began its short but important career in 1919 The company opened service in the spring of 1920 on the heavily travelled Paris-London route and later flew also to Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland. The Farman "Goliath" seated 14 passengers comfortably in an enclosed cabin, making it one of the largest and most innovative planes at the time. Because C.G.E.A.’s routes paralleled another French airline, the two merged in 1923 to form Air Union, a precursor of Air France. |
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