I found this in The Times archive from 1954. Presumably the fact that Dr Sutton needed to rule out condensation trails as a cause for bad weather means that people were theorising about them even then.


For context, 1954 was a terrible summer in the UK, so people may have been looking for causes to blame:
http://www.trevorharley.com/trevorharley/weather_web_pages/1954_weather.htm
For context, 1954 was a terrible summer in the UK, so people may have been looking for causes to blame:
http://www.trevorharley.com/trevorharley/weather_web_pages/1954_weather.htm
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