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. 2020 Dec;113(12):487-490.
doi: 10.1177/0141076820967926. Epub 2020 Oct 26.

Air travel, public safety and price: a distant mirror from Croydon Airport, 1939

Anjna Harrar  1
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Air travel, public safety and price: a distant mirror from Croydon Airport, 1939

Anjna Harrar. J R Soc Med. 2020 Dec.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations: Competing interests None declared.

Figures

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Figure 1.
Airport of London, Croydon. HCAT.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Children arriving at Croydon Airport from Prague, 11 January 1939, four days after Draper’s paper. HCAT.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Croydon Airport, ground floor plans. HCAT.
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