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THE FOURTH IN THE Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive series describes and illustrates British early post-war airliners, ranging from converted military types to the latest piston-engined aircraft. Flying-boats are not included, for they were the subject of our previous publication, Great British Flying-boats (ISBN 987-1- 907426-29-2), copies of which are still available. Basic details for each type are given, with large and interesting illustrations from the Aeroplane and Flight archives, supplementing these by quality prints from other sources. The page layout is not in order of a type’s  rst  ight. CUTAWAY ARTWORK Much of this was drawn by James (Jimmy) Clark of The Aeroplane, whose work began in the mid-1930s, continuing for the next 30 years, each drawing getting more detailed as the aircraft became more complex. We have also had access to material from Flight’s Max Millar, for which we are grateful to Flight Global, and we are pleased to include work by other artists. Production of a cutaway involved many hours of work in factories where engineering drawings were examined to provide the necessary details,  nishing the cutaway at home or in the studio. Their work is worthy of detailed study and we hope readers will  nd it of interest. AIRLINER DESIGNS – THE BRABAZON COMMITTEE In 1942 Prime Minister Winston Churchill established a War Cabinet Committee on Post-War Civil Air Transport, appointing Lord Beaverbrook as Chairman. The aim was to encourage development of British air services in the post-war period and Britain would need to build its own airliners. American wartime production of transport aircraft had provided them with civil developments such as the Douglas DC-3 and DC-4 which had served the USAAF as the C-47 and C-54 and although it could not be contemplated at the time, the DC-3 conversions from RAF Dakotas were in service with UK companies for some years post-war.