TIN SWEET BOX

 Distributed to children flying on British Overseas Airways Corporation flights. 
 Late 1960's to 1972                                                      

  VC10
  707
  747

    Lithographed tin, six colour process
    Manufactured by Metal Box

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    Contents included
    'Crunchie'
    'Mars'
     - other contents names wanted

    Three box styles known as illustrated. (others?)

Top Front Right Back Left Inside 3/4

    More pictures to come

 

Related
            Junior Jet Club
            Unaccompanied Minors UM's
            Aunties
            Lollipop Specials
            Routes - LHR - BHN
                          LHR - MIA  
                          LHR - DUB

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Links

1.The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire - Google Books Result

by Sheila Bevan - 2001 - History - 310 pages
BOAC was good about communicating with parents and we would get ... On the flight each child was given a tin of sweets and had their Junior Jet Club logs ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=1860647340...

2. http://www.ingenious.org.uk

BOAC 'Evolution of Flight' paintbox, 1969-1970.

 Caption: Tin box illustrated with 12 colour pictures of flying machines, including the 747 jumbo jet, the R34 Airship, the Lebaudy Dirigible and biplanes. The box contained a brush and 17 small pots of Humbrol colour enamel paints used for aeroplane model making. The lid contains information of interest to small boys who would have used the paint set: 'The giant BOAC 747 carries 344 passengers, weighs 340 tons and has a cruising speed of 568 mph (Mach.86). The four Pratt & Whitney engines produce a thrust of 174,000 lb. The seventies will see the introduction of the supersonic Concorde'. It was probably sold at Farnborough Air Show as a souvenir of the early flights of Concorde.

Comment  I was surprised to read that it was believed that this 'Paint set' was sold at Farnborough Air show. I have a collection of three different versions of this tin all issued to 'Unaccompanied Minors' travelling on what staff called 'Lollipop Specials' on BOAC aircraft to destinations around the world, in my case Bahrain between 1966 and 1972. The chocolate and sweets in the tins (made by Metal Box Industries) were rapidly consumed and the tins were used as various storage devices thereafter. First as pencil cases at school, as sewing kits, and currently as a modellers tool box. Which leads perhaps to your displayed tin that seemingly carried a paint set.
I suggest that as a paint set the paints would be kept in a plastic bag as a precaution against leakage when transporting modelling paints overseas for the school holidays as a small boys hobby's would continue for the duration of boarding school holidays.

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