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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

The picture below article was spotted by our Terry Baker in the "Between Ourselves" magazine issued July 1957. It shows a scene at the London Heathrow Airport (LHR) in 1957 at the TCA ticket counter with Passenger Agent Bill Ferguson handing a shipment of the Salk vaccine to a Canadian journalist. 

The photo and details were sent to Jack Morath, the UK Pionairs Social Director in London, who sent us this response -

Regarding the picture received from Terry Baker of Bill Ferguson in the North Side temporary departure lounge.

I spoke with Bill yesterday and he doesn't remember the picture being taken but confirms that he was a passenger agent when he joined TCA in 1956. He is very well and sounds great too. He is 88 now and living in a small village near Dartmouth, Devon. As he is not on the computer I have sent a package of pictures to him in the mail. He sounds just the same as I remember him.

Jack

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Francoise Cohen sends copies of the staff tickets with this comment – 

tmb cpa staff ticketsIt was a fringe benefit; Vacation Pass.

This particular pairing:  Montreal - Vancouver - Honolulu - Nandi, Fiji - Sydney - and back for upcoming Lima trip and later seven days lay-over-flights from Montreal to Amsterdam with shuttle to Athens and Tel Aviv.

Three other free passes tickets pictured were for Acapulco stays at the Acapulco Princess.

Anyone who may wish to contact Francoise can contact her via the NetLetter at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; we will pass along the information.

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