1930 Cigarette Card "THE ATLANTIC CITY FLYER."

1930 Cigarette Card "THE ATLANTIC CITY FLYER." is a vintage Cigarette Cards artifact by W.D. & H.O. Wills (Imperial Tobacco Co.) from 1930, preserved in The Record Institute Ephemera Archive.

Category: Cigarette Cards

Brand: W.D. & H.O. Wills (Imperial Tobacco Co.)

Year: 1930

Rarity Class: B

Last updated: August 8, 2026

This evocative survival from W.D. & H.O. Wills’s ambitious "SPEED" series encapsulates the romance and engineering might of the interwar American railway. Depicting the legendary Atlantic City Flyer, this card serves as a transatlantic monument to the relentless human pursuit of velocity, distilling industrial triumph into a pasteboard rectangle.

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Subject: The Atlantic City Flyer, claiming the title of the fastest train in the U.S.A. Route: Camden, New Jersey, to Atlantic City (55.5 miles). Issuer: W.D. & H.O. Wills, a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. of Great Britain & Ireland Ltd. Context: Card No. 41 from the highly popular "SPEED" series of 50, categorized under section "(d) Railways." Historical Data: Documents the shift from the "At

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This evocative survival from W.D. & H.O. Wills’s ambitious "SPEED" series encapsulates the romance and engineering might of the interwar American railway. Depicting the legendary Atlantic City Flyer, this card serves as a transatlantic monument to the relentless human pursuit of velocity, distilling industrial triumph into a pasteboard rectangle.

A vintage W.D. & H.O. Wills cigarette card titled "THE ATLANTIC CITY FLYER." The front displays a color half-tone illustration of a massive dark steam locomotive angled toward the viewer, pulling a long line of yellow and brown passenger cars along a track. The reverse features crisp black printed text detailing the train's speed records between Camden, New Jersey and Atlantic City, identifying it as card number 41 in the "SPEED" series issued by the Imperial Tobacco Co.