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Billy Bishop's bright idea
Billy Bishop's bright idea

Billy Bishop's bright idea

Date11/5/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: Billy Bishop's bright idea: Sometime in the 1940s, Canada's World War I flying ace Billy Bishop had a dozen light bulbs made - each with a model DC-3 Dakota inside. The Victoria Cross-winning pilot would give the bulbs to friends as gifts - and at least one of the fragile bulbs has survived Bishop, who died in 1956. Stewart Morrison, 28, of Mississauga (above), has one of the unusual bulbs - and it still works. He's been told it may be worth $5,000.
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