On 18/07/2011 13:45, Andrew Chaplin wrote:
Joseph wrote in
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I would imagine "Southern Railway" was the aircraft's sponsor and that
"Invicta" may be an allusion to the poem "Invictus," in the feminine, for
Britain. Anyone know the real skit?

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Sorry to take so long to post this, but I have a massive backlog of
posts to read.

I think the name "Invicta" is more probably the motto of the County of
Kent, given the Southern Railway connection.

--
Peter