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Handwritten letter from David C. Hillam to Sir Freddie Laker thanking him for cheap transatlantic flights
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Handwritten letter from David C. Hillam to Sir Freddie Laker thanking him for cheap transatlantic flights

A handwritten letter from David C. Hillam expressing gratitude to Sir Freddie Laker for providing affordable transatlantic air travel. The letter mentions a family holiday to Tenerife on a Boeing 707 and describes the service to New York as being so cheap that the writer's father initially thought it was a joke.

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