A toilet seat for all those with Concorde nostalgia

IF YOU never got a chance to fly by Concorde there’s still an opportunity to relive the “golden age” of travel thanks to an upcoming auction featuring pieces of the aircraft.

Toilet seats, oxygen masks, headphones, crockery and menus are among the items featured in the sale, which will take place at the beginning of November at the Marc Labarbe auction house in Toulouse.

The unique haul is expected to attract a broad range of bids with metal washer rings used in the construction of Concorde estimated at €10 while a Machmeter – an aircraft flight instrument that shows the ratio of the true airspeed to the speed of sound – estimated to fetch €12 000.

Seats – in sets of twos and threes – from the aircraft are also expected to command a high price, with estimates running up to €3 000. There are more than 1 000 pieces of the pioneering passenger sale.

The Concorde was once the ultimate symbol of jet-set glamour, whisking celebrities and high-powered executives across the Atlantic. Only 20 Concordes were ever built as part of a joint British and French initiative in the Sixties. They were commercialised by Air France and British Airways. Flights to New York took a mere three-and-a-half hours. – Daily Mail plane in the upcoming