NOT A LETTER POSTED
13,500,000 FLOWN ON LISBON 1 SERVICE Not one letter lias been lost of the thirteen and a half million flown between England and Lisbon in the last year by the British Overseas Airways Corporation. Seaplanes and aeroplanes have safely covered 750,000 miles with. 4000 passengers, and neither war nor Aveathcr has caused the service to change its timetable sincc it opened in 1939. Throughout the Battle of Britain, severe weather and hazards of war, the air link between England and Portugal, and by Clipper on to U.S.A., has remained unbroken. Mails for prisoners of Avar are I 11 own to Portugal and letters from them arc flown, free of charge, back to Lisbon where the Portuguese Past Office transfers them to British Airways. In July a special lightweight let-ter-card was devised for airmails to prisoners of war. It costs only threepence to fly one of these cards to Lisbon and on by neutral plane to Germany. Four thousand live hundred of the new letter-cards weigh just one pound; the same number of ordinary airmail letters one ewt and a half.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 199, 5 January 1942, Page 8
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184NOT A LETTER POSTED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 199, 5 January 1942, Page 8
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