What "The Telegraph" omitted!
Sir, I noted with interest Mr. Pyle's letter to the Minister of Transport. The report in the Daily Telegraph, on which he based his comment, left out one important point…
THIS ENGLAND!
We take the following from Flight of December 23rd, 1943: “Two 20-year-old Canadian Halifax pilots, both of whom have flown in at least one big Berlin attack, besides a fair number of lesser raids, recently applied for third-party motor-cycle insurance. But they were told that as they were under 21 they would have to get a letter from ‘a responsible party’ before they could be allowed to ride their own motorcycles. Fortunately, the Dominion lads regard this sort of treatment as a joke.” We are glad, for the sake of our national reputation, that the pilots regard this red tape as a joke. But, personally, we do NOT.