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ROSSITER POSTAL HISTORY JOURNAL VOLUME No 5: 2004
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The Travelling Post Offices of Great Britain
by Harold S Wilson CEng MIMechE
The development of the West Coast Services began with the opening of the Grand Junction Railway from Birmingham to Warrington in 1837 and eventually extended from Euston to Glasgow and on to Aberdeen. The apparatus used is described together with the late fee and the Experimental Sorting Carriage. Then follows a description of the development of the Travelling Post Office services tracing the amalgamation of various early railway companies into the London & North Western Railway Company in 1846. Details of the various postal markings applied are clearly pictured and described for both the Up and Down TPOs until closure in 2004.
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The Republic of Venice Posts
by Richard Harlow
A brief account of some of the postal arrangements serving the Republic until 1797
There were some 50 or more courier companies operating into and out of Venice - one of the earliest being the Padua couriers of 1158. Letters of the 1300s are very scare particularly those written before 1350. Letters of the 1400s are a little easier than the 1500s while the 1600s are not too difficult. This account describes briefly the Rome Post (1533), the Milan Post (1584), the Flanders Post (1541), the Post of Vienna (1579), the Post of Lyon (1550), the Swiss Post (1615), the Polish Post (1558), the Ferrara Post (1573) and the Constantinople Post. The "Dazio" or letter tax of 1701 is described as are the manuscript and postal markings of the various types of mail (eg paid, unpaid, registered etc).
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German East Africa
by Michael Farrant
Wartime Emergency Measures 1915 & 1916
On the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Colonies were cut off from the fatherland and were all eventually occupied by Allied forces. In the case of German East Africa the colonial authorities were able to continue to function as previously without the assistance of Germany and only gradually did the blockade by the Royal Navy have any real effect. One of the first shortages to be experienced was the diminishing stock of postage stamps as supplies could not be received from Germany. In order to maintain an effective postal system within the Colony, emergency measures were instituted and these were the facility of "cash franking" and the use of prepaid envelopes. Both measures were implemented solely to save the use of postage stamps and are described in detail.
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60 pages B/W illustrations throughout. Card cover. Published 2004
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