Ulm Flight to New Zealand The Faith in Australia was flown from Richmond, Sydney to New Plymouth on 3 – 4 December 1933. An unofficial mail was carried. Flown postcards show the crew: Charles Ulm (pilot), G U (“Scotty”) Allan (co-pilot/navigator) and R T Boulton (radio-operator) and have the inscription: This Souvenir Postcard was carried […]
Start of Regular Air Service, (NZ -) Australia – UK, Dec 1934 The Singapore – Brisbane stage of the Empire Air Service was opened in December 1934 providing the first regular airmail service between Australia and the UK. Qantas Empire Airways (QEA) was formed by Qantas and Imperial Airways to fly the route between Singapore
Competition: KLM 1931-38 KLM planned an experimental airmail from Amsterdam to Melbourne and back in April/May 1931. This prompted Imperial Airways to plan two experimental flights from London to Australia and return. Regular KLM service to Batavia Since 25 September 1930, KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij or Royal Dutch Airlines) had operated the longest regular airmail
New Zealand – USA – UK: 1942-44 The Pan Am trans-Pacific air mail service FAM 19 between Auckland and San Francisco was suspended in December 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. That meant that there was no longer an all air service between New Zealand and Britain. With the cut in the Horseshoe Route
Cook Strait Extension, 1937 The initial Cook Strait Airways service was between Wellington, Blenheim and Nelson. In February 1937, the service was extended from Nelson to Greymouth and Hokitika. There were three flights a week from Wellington, Blenheim and Nelson to Greymouth and Hokitika from where a connection could be made with the Air Travel
Gisborne Air Transport Gisborne Air Transport ran a Gisborne – Hastings airmail service from March 1931 to December 1932. Gisborne Air Transport took over the Dominion Airlines route with the first flight being on 10 March 1931. The plane was a DH 60 Moth and the pilot was W.H. Lett. The airmail cost was 6d
Covers: New Zealand to/from UK Until 1866, the route between New Zealand and Great Britain was via Australia. Then, between 1866 and 1868, the standard route was via Panama. That route ceased in December 1868 and, as the route via San Francisco did not open until 1870, the only route was via Australia in 1869-70.
George V Recess Definitives This issue is one of the glories of New Zealand philately. It shows that beautiful stamps do not have to be multi-coloured or pictorials. Linley Richardson from Wellington was commissioned to produce the design of the new King George V stamps in 1911. Several alternatives were explored and rejected. When Sir
Health 1936 The die and plates of the 1936 Health issue were prepared and printed by the Australian Note and Stamp Printer, Melbourne. The plates were made of chromium-plated copper. The 1936 design was by J. Berry. Each plate consisted of 192 stamps organised in four panes of 48 (8 rows of 6) with the
Law Courts, Land and Deeds These stamps were for the payment of duties, fees and fines in Law Courts or to Registrars of Deeds or District Land Registrars. Both sets of stamps were authorised by an Act passed in December 1875. Before that, the fiscal stamps first issued in 1867 dealt with everything. The law
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Blitz perforations In September and again in December 1940, De La Rue‘s printing works were extensively damaged during the blitz (bombing) of London in World War II. Clicking on some of the following images will cause relevant plate blocks to be displayed. This made it difficult for De La Rue to fulfil all their contracts
2nd Official Trans-Tasman Airmail After the first official airmail on 17 February, there were three further official New Zealand – Australia airmails and one official Australia-New Zealand airmail in 1934. The second official trans-Tasman airmail was on 29 March 1934 by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. The flight was from Ninety Mile Beach, Kaitaia in the
Imperial Airways Eastern Route (- NZ), 1935 – February 1937 The Singapore – Brisbane stage of the Empire Air Service was opened in December 1934 providing the first regular airmail service between Australia and the UK. This page deals with flights from January 1935 up until flying boats were introduced on the Southampton – Alexandria
KLM flight to Australia, 1931 In May 1931, KLM added an experimental flight from Batavia to Melbourne to their regular Amsterdam – Batavia (Dutch East Indies) service providing a through service from Amsterdam to Australia. This prompted Imperial Airways to quickly plan two experimental flights from London to Australia and return. The regular service by
WW 2 Airgraphs Airgraphs were developed by Kodak. The idea was that a letter was written on a special form which was then photographed. A large number of letters could be put on a single roll of film which was then flown to its destination. On arrival, the film was processed on to a roll
East Coast Airways extension On 30 October 1937, East Coast Airways extended their Gisborne, Napier service to Palmerston North and on 10 January 1938 to Wanganui. The extension to Palmerston North enabled connections to be made with Union Airways services at Palmerston North and hence with Cook Strait Airways at Blenheim. This cover was carried
Survey Flights 1930-32 Although New Zealand is larger than the United Kingdom, its population is less than 3.5 million. The distance by road from the north of the North Island to the south of the South Island is greater than the distance between Edinburgh in Scotland and Milan in Italy. The combination of it being
The Full Face Queens When the printings on star watermark paper resumed in August 1864, the Government perforating machine had been installed. The use of the NZ watermark paper therefore forms a neat interlude between the imperforate issues and those on star watermarked paper perforated 12½. At the end of 1864, stamp production was moved
George V Recess Officials The 3d, 6d and 1s values were issued overprinted OFFICIAL in 1915 / 1916 while the 4d, 8d and 9d were issued in the 1920s. None of the other recess printed values were overprinted. The stamps The 3d value was issued overprinted OFFICIAL in December 1915, the 6d value in June
Health 1937 The plates were made of chromium-plated copper. The die and plates of the 1937 Health issue were prepared and printed by the Australian Note and Stamp Printer, Melbourne as was the case in the previous two years. The 1937 design was by G. Bull and J. Berry. Two plates were used, numbered 1
Life Insurance The New Zealand Government Life Insurance Department was opened in 1869 and started issuing its own stamps in 1891. All the designs have featured lighthouses. The dies were engraved by A.E.Cousins and plates made at the Government Printing Office. The following values were issued: ½d, 1d, 2d, 3d, 6d and 1/- (1s). The
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