1932 – First Regular Mail Service to London (From Inyanga)
First Regular Mail Service to London
From Inyanga
Samuel Osborn (Rhodesia) Ltd Bulawayo Samuel Osborn and Company was a steelmaker and engineering tool manufacturer situated in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Looking for sales potential from overseas the company set up a South African subsidiary in 1919. Based in the mining area outside Johannesburg, the new company was founded to market their parent company’s Sheffield made special steels for…
Municipality of Bulawayo Receipts For Town Clerk For Town Treasurer
The Evangelical Alliance Mission Msengedzi Mission The Msengedzi (Msengezi) Mission was established by The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) missionaries Rudolph (Rudy) and Mary Danielson and Orval (Orv) and Helen Dunkeld in 1942. It is located in the Zambezi Valley, Mbire District, Mashonaland Central Province, across the boarder from Mozambique. Mail was posted at both…
Methodist Episcopal Church Mtoko Mission Mtoko (Mutoko) Mission, located approximately 65 km north of Mrewa (Murewa) in Mashonaland East Province, was founded by Dr. Samuel Gurney of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) in 1911. The Mutoko area had a large population and Dr. Gurney saw it “as a way to move on from there…
Aerogrammes of British Central Africa This listing will deal with the special printed forms used in the three countries of British Central Africa as a means of providing an inexpensive air mail service using a custom designed air letter form. It is not confined to postal stationery (that is stationery produced bearing an imprinted valid…
British Overseas Airways Corporation 1957 – First Britannia Regular Service (Johannesburg to London) From South Africa to Southern Rhodesia From Southern Rhodesia to Italy From Southern Rhodesia to London From Southern Rhodesia to Sudan FB