IWM coverage of the rather uncomfortable looking transport Stirling
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205127029

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126847
(SDASM/flickr not IWM)
Bound to be interesting……..here’s an Avro York selection from the IWM
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126609
Are your father’s original photos or negatives lost, then?
RAF Transport Command had 10 C-54D Skymasters on routes to Australia and New Zealand 1945/1946 (plus Churchills C-54B
KL979 New Zealand, Dec45
http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE12119946&dps_custom_att_1=emu
KL980 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210759

and KL980 dropping Anthony Eden at RAF Gatow for the Potsdam Conference July 1945
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205189189

The Liberator was the backbone of RAF Transport Command’s Long range routes which by 1945 stretched round the world. It started a with the Return Ferry Service across Prestwick to Canada operated by BOAC but controlled by Ferry Command later Transport Command
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205369277
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/14520979945/sizes/l
The C-87 Liberator Express was theC MK VII in the RAF
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126691

232 Sqn Liberator CMK VII (C-87) landing on steel mesh Cocos Is Mar45 last minute reel 7 in https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060028994
Liberator ‘Commando’ after use by Churchill’s then later conversion to semi-RY-3 configuration
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210637

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210845

And a genuine RY-3 Liberator C.IX JT978 April 1945
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126694

and RY-3 JT993 in New Zealand Dec45
http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE12119986&dps_custom_att_1=emu
https://thumbnailer.digitalnz.org/?resize=664%3E&src=http%3A%2F%2Fndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz%2FNLNZStreamGate%2Fget%3Fdps_pid%3DIE12119986
An RCAF example which escaped the post-WWII crusher for some years
http://data2.archives.ca/ap/a/a065976-v8.jpg
Nice RAF Transport Command photos in the IWM collection, with a zoomable presentation
Daks and Stirlings at Prague 1945 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205211805
If this is up to date…..http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4777370[ATTACH=CONFIG]260576[/ATTACH]
Ian has it right….in the spacious entrance lobby,there was also a newsreel cinema showing short films. Another covered footbridge was later built from T2 to the QB linking through to T1. In its final years when only the diminishing terrace ontop of T2 was accessible the entrance was up the old fire escape on the nearest corner of T2…as I recall there were no signs to the terrace. Surprisingly it even reopened after 9/11 closing finally when the 2nd Gulf war started https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1006684 [ATTACH=CONFIG]260565[/ATTACH]
The Wikipedia account is incomplete…the Envoy (G-ADBA)was sold to Olley Air Services then involved in various thwarted sales attempts to Spain, used in the film Q planes as E-97, impressed in WWII as P9778 (info Air -Britain)…photo is in front of Croydon Airport Hotel and is in the Swissair archive http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/index.jspx?locale=en#1526296867588_7
The P.1081 was at[ATTACH=CONFIG]260555[/ATTACH] Heathrow in 1950…raises the unlikely question did it make its first flight there? See the evolution of the Hunter in some of these pics https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=Hawker&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=TR184DG&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=3&_fss=1&_fsradio=%26LH_SpecificSeller%3D1&_saslop=1&_sasl=Peterandjo101&_sop=10&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&_fosrp=1
Edit… and Flight 29Jun50 reveals the P.1081 was at L.A.P. for a flight to the Antwerp air show https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1950/1950%20-%201200.html?search=Hawker%20p1081%20london
Would this photo of Hawker P1081 be at Langley? [ATTACH=CONFIG]260550[/ATTACH]
I see what you meant about you being able to slip through gaps that Brian couldn’t to get some photos