North British & Mercantile Insurance Company Ltd: Fire Renewal Receipt
North British & Mercantile Insurance Company Ltd
Fire Renewal Receipt
Southern Rhodesia Government Stationery Office – 857/38/S Details Date of Issue: 30 November 1938 Dept: Government Stationery Office Reqn.: 857/39/S Printer: John Dickinson & Co Ltd Paper: Quantity: 1,000,000 FB
Empire Air Mail Scheme 1938 – Stage 3 Australasia & New Zealand The Empire Air Mail Scheme (EAMS) provided regular connections between the countries of the British Empire at the very low postal rate of 1½d per half oz. As this was an all-up service, an air mail label was not needed. On the 26th July,…
Rio Tinto Southern Rhodesia Ltd Salisbury Rio Tinto Southern Rhodesia Ltd was incorporated on 29th August, 1956. It was set up initially to develop and mine the Empress Nickel deposit in Gatooma and was the first mining operation to be set up outside Europe by Rio Tinto plc in March, 1957. By 1959 it acquired…
1953 – Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition Postal Services – Counter 2
Scotch Stores Bulawayo Scotch Stores in Bulawayo was run by William Archibald McCalman (b.1869, Scotland). McCalman was a wholesale and retail grocer and a wine and spirit merchant. Scotch Stores incorporated the liquor business of The Bechuanaland Trading Association Ltd (BTA). BTA operated a large scale enterprise with interests outside Bechuanaland and was linked to…
Municipality of Salisbury Rhodesia The Pioneer Column, a military volunteer force of settlers organised by Cecil Rhodes, founded Salisbury on 12 September 1890 as a fort. They originally named the city Fort Salisbury after The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, then British prime minister, and it subsequently became known simply as Salisbury. It was declared to be a municipality…