Milestones
Sep 27, 2019
2 minutes
—RACHAEL BUNYAN
By Howard Chua-Eoan
COLLAPSED
Thomas Cook
The U.K.’s oldest travel company
WHEN ENGLISH CABINETMAKER THOMAS COOK STARTED A travel company in 1841, it sold only day trips from Leicester to Loughborough, via steam train, at a shilling each. More than 178 years later—after surviving 36 U.S. presidencies, two world wars and the reigns of six British monarchs—one of the world’s oldest travel
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