Dean and Dawson

Dean and Dawson was a travel agency in the United Kingdom.

History

Dean and Dawson was founded in 1871 by Joseph Dean and John Dawson. In 1890, Dean founded a printing company to support the travel agency.[1]

In 1944, in the great escape from Stalag Luft III, the name Dean and Dawson was used as a code name by the forgers who produced counterfeit documents for the escaping prisoners of war, detailed in the book The Great Escape.[2]

In the 1950s, the company was acquired by Thomas Cook Group.[3]

References

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