Advertising Covers: Meikle’s Hotel (1925-1931)
Meikle’s Hotel
1925-1931
The Newman Art Publishing Co Type IIF Stamp box is dotted, right showing ‘. . . . . . . . . – – ‘. The divider includes This is a Real Photograph. Description on back in brown. FB
Vacuum Oil Company of South Africa Ltd Vacuum Oil was founded in 1866 by Matthew Ewing and Hiram Bond Everest, of Rochester, New York. Lubrication oil was an accidental discovery while attempting to distil kerosene. Everest noted the residue from the extraction was suitable as a lubricant. Soon after, the product became popular for use in steam engines and internal-combustion…
Department of Roads Marandellas Road Council Marandellas Road Council was established in November, 1925. References White Farmers in Rhodesia, 1890–1965: A History of the Marandellas District – Richard Hodder-Williams FB
North British & Mercantile Insurance Company Ltd London The North British and Mercantile Insurance Company Ltd was a British-based company founded in 1809 in Edinburgh and absorbed as a subsidiary of the Commercial Union in 1959. The company was also known as the North British Insurance Company, North British Fire Office and North British Fire…
Southern Rhodesia Rusape Polish Refugee Settlement The British Financial Secretary of State advised the Governor of Southern Rhodesia on 11 May 1942 that between 1933 and 1939, Britain had received 55,000 German and Austrian refugees. Further, since May 1940, 63,000 refugees from the Continent and an additional 47 000 British refugees from the Channel Islands…
Departments of Posts and Telegraphs Postal Notice No.8 of 1938 Details Date: 9 February 1938 Notice: 8/1938