No. 47 Squadron RAF Army support role. The Squadron moved to RAF Disforth in September 1948, where it became the first RAF Squadron to receive the Handley Page Hastings four-engined transport. The conversion process was rushed as the aircraft were needed to support the Berlin Airlift, with the Squadron moving to Schleswigland, near Kiel in West Germany on 1 November 1948. The aircraft was mainly used to carry coal, carrying out 3,000 trips to Berlin and carrying 22,000 tons of supplies. When the blockade ended the Squadron returned to the United Kingdom, moving to RAF Topcliffe on 22 August 1949, operating in support of
Tons of Money (play) the play in 1986 in a revival by The National Theatre starring Michael Gambon as Sprules and Simon Cadell as Aubrey. The play was adapted into film on two occasions. A 1924 silent film "Tons of Money" directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Leslie Henson and a 1930 sound version "Tons of Money" directed by Tom Walls and starring many of the Aldwych regulars, including Arnaud, Ralph Lynn, Mary Brough, Robertson Hare and Willie Warde. A television adaptation was broadcast by the BBC on Boxing Day 1954, starring Frankie Howerd as Aubrey. Graeme Muir directed. Tons of Money (play)