City of Birmingham. 1931 (June 4) Cover from Colombo to H.M.S "Enterprise" at Mombasa franked Ceylon 9c + 10c + 50c, backstamped at Kisumu (June 20) and Kilindini . "City of Birmingham", operating from Cairo to East Africa, crashed at Aswan on June 16th 1931; the mails were forwarded by "City of Jodhpur" without any explanatory cachet. Closed tear at upper edge, otherwise fine and scarce, this crash unlisted by Nierinck.