Description
Proud, Edward B.: Intercontinental Airmails Volume II- Asia and Australasia (2009), Handbook of airmail connections between Europe and Asia and Australia before 1945 with flight schedules and airmail tariffs. 896 pages, with numerous, partly colored illustrations of documents, of the flying boats and of mail handling. Includes the following chapters: British Cairo - Baghdad Service 1919 (32 pp.), Imperial Airways Service to Asia, later extended to Australia (74 pp.), Imperial Airways Timetables (334 pp.), Horshoe Route Service (68 pp.), Imperial Airways Egypt-Iraq and UK during WW II (38 pp.), BOAC Service to India 1943-45 (10 pp.), Imperial Airways - Hong Kong Feeder Service (26 pp.), Imperial Airways Rates (BOAC later) 1929-1945 (64 pages), KLM Air Service to Asia (120 pages), French Air Service to Asia (52 pages), Lufthansa Air Service to Asia 1937-1939 (4 pages), Quantas Service Australia- Ceylon 1943-45 (12 pages), Overland Services to the Far East via Russia and China, Japanese Services, DERULUFT, EURASIA (32 p.), Italian and Polish Services to the Middle East (Palestine) (4 pages), out of print and sought after, here is an almost freshly printed copy from a very good airmail library with ex libris #54406