GB 1926 Cover - 'General Strike' emergency special air mail letter

Stock Code: P201011911

1926 Special Air Mail. Very fine OHMS manila envelope from the War Office to the School of Military Engineering, Chatham. Sent by special air mail during the 1926 'General Strike' with contemporary explanatory notes attached. 'S.D.R. Collected from Rochester Police on receipt of phone message that this letter had been received by airmail this morning, 7/5/26 J.A. Graham' and 'Arrangement between Govt. and Air industry for delivery by special air mail as follows: Up to 40 mile radius of London by airmail-tender; beyond by aeroplane. S.E. District first stop Gravesend 7/5/1926 J.A.G.'. Very unusual and scarce.

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