Editing Speedbird (section)

===Imperial Airways===
[[File:De Havilland DH.91 Albatross G-AFDI.jpg|thumb|right|On the nose of "[[Martin Frobisher|Frobisher]]" – an Imperial Airways [[de Havilland Albatross]] in 1938.]]
The original Speedbird was designed in 1932 for Imperial Airways by Theyre Lee-Elliott through [[Stuart Advertising Agency]].<ref name=PotP>{{citation |pages=37–43 |title=Poetics of the Poster |chapter=Visual Metaphors: Airline logos |author=David H. T. Scott |publisher=Liverpool University Press |year=2010 |isbn=9781846314865}}</ref> A relief sculpture, which become the final version, was made by [[Barbara Hepworth]]. It was initially used on advertising posters and luggage labels.<ref name="morgan">Glenn H. Morgan; [http://www.stampprinters.info/tle.pdf Theyre Lee-Elliott (1903–1988): Graphic Designer, Artist and Writer] (retrieved 11 September 2015)</ref> Later, it was applied to the nose section of the company's aircraft and could be seen for example in 1938 on the company's [[Short Empire]] S.30 flying boats.<ref>Norris, G.; ''The Short Empire Flying Boats'', Profile Publications, 1966.</ref>