Letter by Harold James Manson [manuscript]. 1931.

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Letter by Harold James Manson [manuscript]. 1931.

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Letter with envelope carried on the first airmail service from England to Australia, April 1931, from the Managing Director, Imperial Airways Ltd. to Digwarrah Rubber Company Limited, Sungkai, Perak, Federated Malay States. This was the first of two experimental return airmail flights to demonstrate the time advantages for communication by air mail over surface mail.

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Manson, Harold James, 1897-1977.

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Harold James Young, commonly known as Harold James Manson (took the name of his mother's second husband) was a rubber planter in the Federated Malay States in the 1930's. Born 7 June 1897 in South Africa to Scottish parents, he went to Malaya in 1919(?), married Alice in 1924 in Penang, then lived on a rubber estate in Malacca until 1929 when the family moved to Digwarrah Estate, Sungkei, where they remained until 1940. Taken prisoner of war in 1941 when returning from leave in Perth, W.A. He di...

Imperial Airways

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