Yes interior shots are rather scarce, I was aware that most early British airliners were equipped with passenger cabin instruments, just wondered what particular aircraft these could have come out of, obviously post war therefore Imperial Airways would have ceased and BOAC would have been in operation,
1948 passenger aircraft would have been the Avro Lancastrian, Consolidated Liberator, Handley Page Halton, Avro York and Lockheed Constellation. The Boeing Stratocruiser arrived later in 1949.
My guess maybe from a 400mph speed guage would be the Connie which was perhaps the only aircraft out of this bunch to reach some sort of decent speed. This is obviously pure speculation on my part.
Nice to compare these instruments to the modern day back of the seat TV and audio screens!
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