Category: Northern Rhodesia

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1st Flight to South America

Date: 26th May, 1934

Route: Imperial Airways via Cairo to London. Onwards to Friedrichshafen.

Flight Covers

Hamburg-Amerika Line

Flights

• 1934 – 10th Flight to South America
• 1934 – 7th Flight to South America
• 1934 – 6th Flight to South America
• 1934 – 5th Flight to South America
• 1934 – 3rd Flight to South America
• 1934 – 1st Flight to South America

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10th Flight to South America

Date: 13th October, 1934

Route: Imperial Airways via Cairo to London. Onwards to Friedrichshafen.

Flight Covers

First Regular Mail Service to Calcutta

1 July 1933

From 1 July 1933, the Imperial Airways London – Karachi – Delhi airmail service was extended to Calcutta via Cawnpore and Allahabad.

A special rectangular postmark (Karachi-Calcutta 7 Jly First Airmail) was applied to covers. Mail arrived in Calcutta on 8 July.

First Flight Covers

From Broken Hill to Calcutta

From Bulawayo to Calcutta

From Salisbury to Calcutta

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First Regular Mail Service to London

27 January 1932

On the return flight to London, the City of Delhi crashed at Broken Hill. The City of Baghdad was borrowed from the northbound service and carried mail from Broken Hill to Nairobi.

Arriving in Nairobi on 3 February, it missed the weekly northbound flight from Kisumu, delaying the mail for another week. The mail was flow to Khartoum and then forwarded by rail to Wadi Halfa.

First Flight Covers

• From Blantyre
• From Broken Hill
• From Bulawayo
• From Fort Jameson (via Salisbury)
• From Inyanga
• From Limbe
• From Mpika 
• From Salisbury

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