SWISSAIR - 1950'S SWISSAIR SBB SWISS FEDERAL RAILROADS PTT & 15 CITIES BROCHURE GENERAL DYNAMICS CONVAIR 990 CORONADO
Your personal invitation to hospitable Switzerland
Another fine and rare item for the Swissair and travel ephemera collectors. Late 1950's or early 1960's joint brochure of Swissair, SBB (Swiss Federal Railroads) and PTT (Swiss Postal Bus Services) publicising these three institutions and 16 most favorite destinations in Switzerland. These are Arosa, Basel, Bern, Davos, Geneva, Interlaken, Lausanne, Locarno, Lucerne, Lugano, Montreux, St.Gallen, St. Moritz, Zermatt, Zurich.Swissair shows the General Dynamics - Convair 990 Coronado in flying over the Alps. Wonderful photo. This is one of the 37 Coronados ever built, it was sleek, smaller and faster than 707's but failed to be economical due to lower passenger capacity of 96-149 people. Powered by four GE CJ-805-23 turbofan engines, it boasted figher like take off speeds and even a Swissair Coronado set a world speed record in the late 1950's when the jet stream boosted it to supersonic speed. A former Delta Convair 990 was bought by Elvis Presley on April 18, 1975 and named Lisa Marie. It is now on display at Graceland - one of the few places that it can be seen today. September 3, 1963 was the final production date.
Approximate size: 10.4 x 21.0 cm. folded, 20.5 x21 cm page size. 20 pages inclluding covers. Printed in Switzerland by Büchler+Co., Ltd., Wabern. This booklet is in English. You can see many pages scanned. In very good condition.
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