@Carl0927 sent me a message earlier with regards to the Aer Lingus Carvair service that operated between Liverpool and Dublin between 1963 & 1966. The ATL-98 Carvair was basically a converted DC-6 with a modified nose section which had the cockpit above the old cabin and a side hinged front nose door through which cars, and later palletised freight, we're loaded. The aircraft carried up to 5 cars (remember cars were a lot smaller in those days) in the main fuselage - back to around just aft of the rear wing root - and could accommodate 23 passengers in the rear cabin.
I well remember being taken on holiday by my parents and using the service. This would be the first of only two flights taken from Speke (the other being on a British Midland DC-9-10 to Heathrow circa 1985). We departed to Dublin from the iconic original Terminal, which is now a hotel, and I will never forget the thrill of the engines being run-up to full power, against the brakes, to check the magnetos - this was an event that resulted in the whole cabin shaking and almost twisting. The rest of the flight I can't recall in detail except to say that the old days of travel, for a boy who was only just in his teens, where the best!!
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I think it must have been Viscounts before the DC9s with British Midland.
