Empire Air Mail Scheme 1937 – From Bulawayo to Cape Town
Empire Air Mail Scheme 1937
Rhodesia & Nyasaland Airways/Imperial Airways
American Board Mission Mount Selinda (1930-1939)
Central African Airways Airway Letter Stamps Type I Details Date of Issue: 1st April, 1955 Designer: Printer: Process: Lithograhed Paper: Watermark: Perf: Line 12.5 Sheet: Booklet: 5 panes of 2 (top stapled) Quantity: FB
H. M. Barbour Salisbury Barbour’s was a department store founded by Irishman H.M. Barbour in 1917. It continues to trade today. Events Benson and Hedges: Stamps of Quality Exhibition Postcards Type I – 1925 Royal Visit Type II – ‘Barbours’ Type III Revenue 39410 – Receipt References 1952 – Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia Contributors Adrian…
British Overseas Airways Corporation British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. After the passing of the Civil Aviation Act of 1946, European and South American services passed to two further state-owned airlines, British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA). BOAC…
Norwich Union Life Insurance Company Salsibury The Norwich Union Life Insurance Company was established in 1808 as a mutual life insurer. The company was originally known as the Norwich Union Society (or Union Office) for Insurances on Lives and Survivorships. It was incorporated on May 10 1893 when it changed its name to the Norwich…
Bhimjee R Naik Salisbury Bhimjee Ranchhodjee Naik (b.1879) was the first Indian to establish a trading licence at Umtali in 1898. The licence was only obtained through the intervention of the High Commissioner, Sir Alfred Milner, after European traders fiercely opposed an Indian being granted a licence. The matter, with the assistance of Mahatma Ghandi,…