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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2205

(x) South Africa
1936 (10 Nov.) Kroonstad First Airmail
1936 (10 Nov.) envelope from Kroonstad to Johannesburg, bearing Ship 1d. (4) cancelled on arrival with machine datestamp and marked "Posted at Kroonstad Aerodrome 6.2-am 10/11/1936" and showing on reverse, signature of Captain J. David Rademan and Germiston Aerodrome arrival oval datestamp (11.11). Scarce. Photo

Note: For late fee or acceptance of airmail letters at aerodromes there was an additional charge of 2d.. On 9 November when the Airspeed Envoy airliner "General J.W. Janssens" was on its return flight from Port Elizabeth to Germiston it encountered a severe storm causing Cap. Rademan to make a forced landing at Kroonstad and stay overnight. As this was the first time that a large airliner had landed at Kroonstad, the incident aroused much local interest an when the flight was resumed the following morning it carried a small number of letters handed in under the "late fee" arrangement

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