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Cairo to New York via London, but
beyond this service there was no air ac-
celerated mail available to all of East
and South Africa. Granted, American
interests in this vast region of Africa
were somewhat limited in the early
1930s. There were, of course, Ameri-
can missionaries, representatives of the
US government and some corporations
plus small numbers of intrepid travel-
lers, e.g., big game safaris, but by in
large East Africa was a British show
with sideshows run by the Italians, Por-
tuguese and French.
March 1931 Supplement announced
under heading “Air Mail Service–En-
gland-Egypt-British East Africa”
The air mail service from London to
Mwanza, Tanganyika Territory, may be
used for the dispatch of articles in the
regular mails, registered and unregis-
tered, posted in this country.
Between London and Egypt the mails
will be conveyed by the planes perform-
ing the London-Karachi (India) air ser-
vice (the schedule of the latter service
Figure 65 While it is certainly a Jenny bound for Africa, this cover was
has been modified, because of bad fly-
not carried by any flight and in fact serves mainly as an illustration of just
ing conditions, and the mails are now
how long surface mail took to travel acrss the United states, by steamer to
conveyed between Nuremberg and Ath-
England and from there to an destination in Africa.
ens by train).
Liverpool on March 5
th
.
Scheduling and the voyage
south to Gambia required
a full month. The cover ar-
rived in Bathurst at the
GPO on April 5
th
after a
total transit time of 54
days.
American postal patrons
had been able to purchase
accelerated delivery for
their mail to Egypt since
Imperial Airways opened
its London-Karachi service
in April 1929 (see Part 3).
The cover shown in figure
66 took advantage of this
service in February 1930
Figure 66 Mailed on Shepheard’s Hotel stationery from Cairo in 1930, the cover
to speedup delivery from sought to accelerate delivery to New York using Imperial’s London to Delhi air service.
It undoubtedly traveled on the westbound Delhi-London flight and not by way of Delhi.
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