- TITLE
- Delivering the Mail to North Ronaldsay, 1939
- EXTERNAL ID
- GB1796_981_P_19_26
- PLACENAME
- Orkney
- DATE OF IMAGE
- July 1939
- PERIOD
- 1930s
- CREATOR
- Norman A. MacLeod
- SOURCE
- Highland Photographic Archive (IMAG)
- ASSET ID
- 11003
- KEYWORDS
- photograph
post
royal mail
communications
airlines
aircraft
aeroplanes
Orkney

This photograph shows Captain Ernest Edmund "Ted" Fresson (to the left of the mailbags and wearing overalls) delivering the mail to North Ronaldsay in July 1939.
Fresson was the founder and managing director of Highland Airways Ltd. which began scheduled services between Inverness, Wick and Kirkwall in May 1933. He is considered as one of the great British pilots.
Behind the group is Highland Airways' de Havilland DH84 Dragon, G-ACIT. The aircraft was originally called 'Aberdeen' but was later renamed 'Orcadian'. At the time of writing the plane was at the National Science Museum near Swindon.
This image can be purchased.
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