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Air Mail Services
Elders Colonial Airways Service to Bathurst to connect with German Service to Europe
17 May 1939 -
Bo-Pendembu TPO
to Manchester, UK.
Backstamped
Freetown (18 May).
Flown by:
ECA FB48 (19 May)
and DLH L452 from
Bathurst (19 May) to
Frankfurt (20 May).
Rate 1s 4d per ½ oz.
25 May 1939 -
Freetown to New York, USA.
Flown by:
ECA FB49 (26 May) and
DLH L454 from Bathurst
(26 May) to Frankfurt
(28 May).
Rate 1s 4d per ½ oz by air
as far as the UK, thence
by surface mail.
The air mail label was
cancelled with the
London red Jusqu’a
handstamp.
