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The approximate saving in time is as follows: The approximate time saving for air mail dispatched
To
by this route over mail dispatched by the ordinary
means is as follows:
Egypt (South) 2-4 days
Khartoum and North Sudan 4-6 days
For Egypt 2-5 days
South Sudan 5-16 days
For Khartoum & northern Suda n 5-7
Belgian Congo
For southern Sudan 6-17
(North East, via Juba) 15 days
For Belgian Congo (NE via Juba) 16
Uganda 11-23 days
For Uganda 12-24
Kenya 7-22 days
For Kenya 8-23
Tanganyika Territory 8-23 days
For Tanganyika Territory 8-24
For Northern Rhodesia 13-18
The air mail fees, per half ounce or fraction (in addi-
For Southern Rhodesia 9-10
tion to regular postage) are as follows:
For Union of South Africa 6-10
Egypt 6 cents
Egyptian Sudan 12 cents Articles intended for dispatch by this service should
Belgian Congo, Kenya, Uganda, have affixed the blue labels reading “Par Avion—
or Tanganyika Territory 17 cents By Air Mail” and be marked in addition “From Eu-
The announcement concludes with the note that the
rope” and those for transmission by air to Windhoek
“British Postal Administration announces that it is
should also be marked at the top left-hand corner of
expected to extend this route to Cape Town, Union
the envelope “By air to Windhoek.”
of South Africa, later in the year. (page 80) Figure 67 illustrates a cover postmarked Columbus
Circle Station, New York, in March 1935. The 30¢
Bison and 2¢ Washington pay a five cent international
The “London-Cape Town Air Mail Service” was an-
rate to the U.K. and the 27¢ surcharge for air carriage
nounced in the February 1932 Supplement as follows:
of a letter up to ½ ounce from London to South Af-
The British Postal Administration has advised this
rica.
department that the weekly direct air mail route which
The cover shown in figure 68 was carried from Af-
leaves London every Wednesday for Africa has been
extended beyond British East Africa to Northern and
rica to the U.S. by Imperial’s East African air route in
Southern Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa…”
the opposite direction. Posted in Nairobi on June 27,
1934, the cover was franked with 140 cents postage
The air mail fees (in addition to the regular postage
and registration fee, if any) for dispatch by this route
to pay twice the 70 cent per half ounce rate for air to
of articles in the regular mails (this includes all ar
London with onward steamer transport. Note the
-
ticles in the mails except parcel-post packages) to
handstamp notation PAR AVION / JUSQU’A LON-
the countries served thereby are as follows:
DON to indicate that the air mail fee applied only as
far as London.
per ½ ounce
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 12¢
The London-Cape Town notice indicated that a weekly
Belgian Congo (via Juba) 17 feeder service would be conducted by Imperial Air-
Egypt 6 ways from Windhoek, Southwest Africa, to Kimberly
Kenya 17
on the trunk route. Figure 69 illustrates a cover from
Northern Rhodesia 22
an automobile dealer in Windhoek to New York. The
Southern Rhodesia 22
cover is postmarked May 2, 1935 (possibly 1936) and
Southwest Africa 33
franked with five copies of the 6 pence Lüderitz Bay
Tanganyika Territory 17
Uganda 17
to pay twice the one shilling three pence rate to the
Union of South Africa 27
US with air service as far as London. No arrival mark-
ings are to be found.
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