04 March. Highland Airways. Emergency flight between Inverness and Stornoway. 02 May. Railway Air Services. Empire exhibition a direct route was offered after Liverpool missing out Glasgow. 02 May. Highland Airways. Last flight of Highland Airways. 03 May. Scottish Airways. First flight under new name. 23 May. Railway Air Services. Manchester replaces Liverpool as the Northern terminal. 23 May. Railway Air Services. New Shoreham-Ryde- Bournemouth service opens in conjunction with PSIOWA. 04 June. Aer Lingus. Start of second mail contract between Isle of Man and Dublin. 27 June. Railway Air Services. Ringway airport in Manchester opens and replaces the old Barton aerodrome. 13 August. Railway Air Services. Channel Air Ferries Ltd take over the Liverpool to Shoreham route 01 October. Atlantic Coast Air Services. LACAL cancel with words ‘AIR POST’. 03 October North Eastern Airlines. First flights to London from 5 Northern cities. 15 October. Atlantic Coast Air Services. Cancel without words ‘AIR POST’. 01 November. Atlantic Coast Air Services. Introduction of provisional over stamped 1/2d air label. 17 December. Scottish Airways. Emergency flight to and from North Ronaldsay.