Tanganyika - Gladstone Airways. 1927 (Jan 4) Cover franked 1/- from Dar-es-Salaam to Gold Coast endorsed "via air Route" and bearing a blue "BY AIR MAIL" label, carried on Captain Gladstone's first flight from Kisumu to Khartoum. Redirected from Accra to Obuasi, backstamped at Cairo (Feb 20), Accra T.P.O Dn, Kumassi and Obuasi. Two small tears at upper edge, otherwise fine and a very scarce commercial first flight cover to an unusual destination. Photo on Page 11. (Image1)

Tanganyika - Gladstone Airways. 1927 (Jan 3) Cover from Tabora to England bearing four 15c stamps, endorsed "Air Route" and bearing a blue "BY AIR MAIL" label, backstamped at Cairo (Feb. 20). Enclosed letter reads "Just a hurried note from my office to catch the first experimental air mail from East Africa to England". A few minor edge faults, otherwise a fine and scarce first flight cover. Photo on Page 15. (Image1)

Uganda - Gladstone Airways Crash Cover. 1927 (Mar 11) Cover from Kampala to London franked 20c + 50c and bearing a blue "BY AIR MAIL" label, red "AIR MAIL / UGANDA SUDAN" skeleton c.d.s (Mar 12) and violet "Owing temporary failure / Air Service Mail / forwarded normal route". Carried on the Kisumu to Khartoum Gladstone Airways survey flight which crashed when landing on Lake Victoria, with a contemporary news cutting. Uganda mail very scarce from this crash. Photo on Page 15. (Image1)

Tanganyika. 1928-30 Covers to Tanganyika comprising 1928 G.B 11/2d lettercard franked 2d for air mail to Marseille; two 1930 covers from G.B franked 11/2d + 2d for air mail to Egypt, one inexplicably with red boxed "NO AIR MAIL SERVICE / Please ask your correspondents to / see Air Mail leaflet" and the Air Mail label obliterated by two red bars; also 1929 Imperial Airways England to India first flight cover flown from Athens to Alexandria and then carried by surface mail to Dar-es-Salaam. (4).

Tanganyika. 1930-32 Covers flown by Tanganyika Government aircraft including 1930 (Dec 2) Korogwe to Dar-es-Salaam first flight (47 carried), Dec 24/26 last flights between Tanga and Dar-es-Salaam (2), 1931 (Oct 20/21) first regular despatch from Tanga or Dar-es-Salaam to Mombasa (4) and first return service (2), Oct 22 covers from Nairobi carried by train to Mombasa then flown by first flight to Tanga, Zanzibar or Dar-es-Salaam, P.O notice attached to covers carried on the first feeder service, Wilson Airways flights, 1932 (Jan 20) final Tanganyika Government flight to Mombasa, etc. Also 1932 (Sep 24) registered postcard flown by Wilson Airways to Nairobi and Imperial Airways to Athens. (21).

1931-39 Covers and cards nearly all with cachets including "FEEDER SERVICE" (19) or "TANGANYIKA TERRITORY / FEEDER / SERVICE" (4), boxed "By Air to / London" (8) or "By Air to / Brindisi" (2), "LOCAL AIR FEE PAID" (4), "PAR AVION / JUSQU'A LONDON" (3) or "AIR FEE PREPAID / TO EUROPE", four with Air Mail etiquettes obliterated by bars or a cross. (43)

1931 Covers from Batavia or India to Kenya both flown to Cairo and then forwarded by sea; 1931 (Dec 1) cover from Copenhagen flown by KLM to Egypt and then on the special Christmas flight to Nairobi; and 1932 cover from Nairobi to Scotland unusually signed by the pilot J.S Sheppard. (4).

Zanzibar. 1931-36 Covers, mainly first flights including 1931 (June 5) Zanzibar-Mwanza feeder service to London, October/November flights to Nairobi (2) or Tanga, Dec. 8 G.B to Zanzibar; 1932 (Jan 20) Zanzibar to London, Zanzibar to Cape Town cover signed by the pilots J.S. Sheppard, M.K Pearce and R.F Caspareuthus, Jan. 27 Cape Town to Zanzibar (2) and Jan. 20 London to Zanzibar, August 6 Athens to Zanzibar first flight by Imperial and Nairobi to Dar-es-Salaam feeder service, August 17 Nairobi to Zanzibar by Wilson Airways (2), October 6 Zanzibar to Athens; 1933 (July 10/11) India to Zanzibar (2), also 1936 cover with boxed "TOO LATE", undated cover with Zanzibar stamps cancelled violet "per SMITH MACKENZIE & CO", etc. (19). Photo on Page 15. (Image1)

1932 (Jan) Covers flown on the first Imperial Airways service between Cape Town and London comprising cover from Salisbury to Broken Hill signed "J.M Gettins, Pilot, City of Delhi"; registered cover from Windhoek to Germany signed by the pilot A.O Wright; registered cover from Broken Hill to Mpika signed by the pilot "J.S Sheppard" (with COP); covers from Dodoma to Malta, or to London signed "J.S Sheppard, Pilot Broken Hill - Kisumu"; cover from Soy, Kenya to Canada sent by Wilson Airways charter from Nairobi to Kisumu to connect with the Imperial Airways first flight; and 1932 registered cover from Kimberley to G.B via Bloemfontein franked 8d, the reverse endorsed "This letter is insufficiently prepaid for transmission by air direct to England. It has accordingly been forwarded by air to Cape Town and from there by steamship" and "Bloemfontein. Received too late for inclusion air mail Bloemfontein to Capetown. Returned to Kimberley" with accompanying Kimberley P.O letter. An unusual group, pilot signed covers uncommon. (7).