1930-48 British Post Office pamphlets and notices giving rates and details of air mail services comprising complete Air Mail leaflets (form P635) issued between October 1930 and July 1938 (13 different, with all inserts including maps, also photocopies of most missing numbers), 1946-48 "Imperial & Foreign Air Mails" leaflets (4 + 4 supplements), 1931 notice of combined air rates and 1932 notice of reduced postcard rates, and two differing 1938 notices for the Empire Air Service. (25+).

1931 (Feb 27) Cover from London to the Luxor Winter Palace Hotel franked 31/2d, inscribed "1st Air Mail Service to East Africa" with enclosed letter signed by Alan Cobham on his personal notepaper, referring to his time spent at the Winter Palace in 1925 on his first survey flight to the Cape and back. A fine Cobham signature.

1931-32 England - South Africa service, 1931 Christmas flight cover containing an Imperial Airways Christmas card, and the 1930 Air Ministry white paper on "England - South Africa Civil Air Transport Service" both posted from G.B franked 1/-; 1932 (Jan 20) first regular flight covers from London to Mpika or Durban both signed by J. Sheppard, pilot of "City of Baghdad" (the cover to Natal also signed by F.J Bailey, "Scipio"); 1932 (Jan 30) Bulawayo to Kimberley first flight cover signed by M.H Pearce and R.F Caspareuthus; and March 15th cover from G.B to Cape Town signed by the pilot George I. Thomson. A good lot, pilot signed covers uncommon. (6).

1932 (Dec 23) Northern Rhodesia 4d H size registration envelope from Lusaka to Latvia franked 1/-, carried on the "City of Karachi" which made an emergency landing 21 miles west of Dodoma on December 30th, the mail and passengers being carried to Dodoma by rail and then flown in "City of Baghdad". Four "Air Mail" endorsements all handstamped large "ANNULLATO" at Brindisi when the cover was transferred to surface mail. Light vertical fold, otherwise fine and unusual, Broken Hill, Italian and Latvian backstamps.

1936 (Feb 9) Test letter from London (violet "Wilton Rd, Hudsons Place" c.d.s) to El Geneina, Sudan, inscribed "First British Air Mail Service England - Nigeria" with arrival backstamp (Feb 15), returned to London via Nigeria. Very scarce.

1937 (June 26) Cover from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia to London franked 6d, carried on the last service with an additional air fee, signed by the pilots J.W.G James and A.M Carroll, fine and scarce.

1937 (June 25) Cover from Wales to Durban franked 11/2d, carried on the first service at the 11/2d "all-up" rate, signed all by five crew members of the flying-boat "Centurion", arrival cachet on reverse, fine and scarce. Photo on Page 170. (Image1)