WINGLEADER ARCHIVE PUBLIC DATABASE

Giving eight of your mates a lift in the back of your hatchback is clearly not a modern invention! This photo shows Louis Noël in the Grahame-White Type 10 Charabanc at Hendon on 2 October 1913 shortly before his record flight carrying NINE (nervous looking) passengers weighing 1,371.5lb for 19mins 47secs.The aircraft’s designer, J.D. North (later to be managing director for Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd.), can be seen fourth from the left.