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Imperial Airways
Britain's First National Airline
50th Anniversary Imperial Airways,
10th May 1988 Rochester, Kent.

Card insert in envelope, with a short history of Imperial Airways.

Empire Air Mail Scheme.
First flight cover.
1½d - half ounce. 1938

Opening of the regular air mail
service by Imperial Airways and
Indian Trans-Continental Airways - through India to Calcutta. 1933

Reverse of the envelope:
Post in the ordinary letter boxes.
All letters for East and South Africa now go by air.

'Hotel Majestic' Pty Ltd
1937

Souvenir envelope from South
Rhodesia.
First official flight by Imperial Airways Mail Service, leaving Salisbury 29th January 1932.

Opening of the air mail service by Imperial Airways and Qantas
Empire Airways between England and Australia.

Baghdad-London by
Imperial Airways. 1935

By Imperial Airways,
First Air-Mail between
England and India. 1929

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