NOT A LETTER LOST
OUT OF 13,500,000 FLOWN ON LISBON SERVICE. Not one letter has 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 4,000 passengers, and neither war nor weather has caused the service to change its time-table since 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 war are flown to Portugal and letters from them are flown, free of charge, back to Lisbon where the Portuguese Post Office transfers them to British Airways. In July a special lightweight lettercard 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 five hundred of the new letter-cards weigh just one pound: the same number of ordinary airmail letters one cwt. and a half.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1942, Page 3
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183NOT A LETTER LOST Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1942, Page 3
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