Rummaging through the loft for car boot material I found something special.
In the 1990's I wrote to Century 21 three times about Project SWORD and got three replies. Two of those replies have already appeared on Moonbase. The third hasn't. Its been in the loft since 2003, when we first moved here and forgotten about. Until now!
It used to be on my home office wall in the 90's at the old house so, taken out of the frame I put it in, here's Keith Shackleton's third letter to me, for the first time on Moonbase Central.
PS. I have blotted out Keith's signature in both photo's as he's still around.
I wrote to AP Films in Britain in about 1968,when Thunderbirds was running in syndication in the US. I got the address off the box of my Lincoln International Thunderbird 4 model! About six months later, I got a personal thank you note from Gerry Anderson himself, plus a couple of black and white photos from the series! I almost dropped dead when I got this! I saved this treasure for over thirty years, and then sold it on eBay in the early 2000s. What a dope! Oh well, I enjoyed it for many years, at least...
ReplyDeleteThats a superb story Zigg! Did you photograph your letter? They were good sports to write back to you in the US werent they. I suppose the States was were they wanted to gain ground and make it really big. Do you think they were as big as they could get there?
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