Mrs A S Wilcockson speaking to her husband from her home in Croydon. To congratulate the first successful transatlantic British air man Captian A.S Wilcockson and Mr T.A Valette, radio operator, their wives who spoke to them by telephone from home. Both women had kept an all-night vigil beside the telephone and followed the progress of the flying boat across the Atlantic until it landed. 6 July 1937