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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2151

(x) South Africa
1932 (24 Mar.) James Mollison Record Flight
1932 (24 Mar.) "The Central News Ltd." envelope (237x183mm.) from Lympne Aerodrome to the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg, showing "duty office/lympne air port" oval datestamp with manuscript "Carried by me on record trip to the Cape. Machine Puss Moth G-ABKG". Time taken 4 days 17hrs. Arrived 8.35p.m. 29.3.32 (local time); edge faults though the sole item of mail recorded from this epic flight; offered with four contemporary newspaper cuttings including one showing his upturned aeroplane on the beach. Unlisted in Nierinck. Photo

Note: At about 8p.m. on 28 March, and due to extreme fatigue, he could not find Wingfield Aerodrome. He chose to land he Woodstock-Milnerton beach where he crash-landed. The pane overturned and landed in four to five feet of water and escaped having forced the window, He was taken to Wingfield where he arrived at 20.35 in time to set a new record. He returned with the aeroplane to England on the "Canarvon Castle" which left Cape Town on 1 April. The photos, excluding overturned plane, were printed in the newspaper from negatives James Mollison carried from England.

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£700