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Indian Airmails (DVD)
Jeffrey Brown
Publications, Price and Availability
Published by India Study Circle https://indiastudycircle.org
About the Book (now DVD)
1. The book primarily covers British India airmails (pre-1947), including first flight covers, postal history, and the evolution of air routes, often featuring very rare illustrations from the author's collection.
2. Published first in 1995 and later updated and published digitally.
Indian Airmail Postage Rates Until 1956 (DVD)
Jeffrey Brown
Publications, Price and Availability
Published by India Study Circle https://indiastudycircle.org
About the book (now DVD)
1. A detailed handbook that provides a comprehensive listing of historical airmail fees and postage rates from India to various countries, starting from when airmail acceptance began for each nation.
2. This essential companion volume to his first book, Indian Airmails.
3. Published in 2000 and was updated to digital version.
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Aircraft Movements Imperial Airways' Eastern Route
More info and how to buyAircraft Movements Imperial Airways' Eastern Route
A landmark reference for aerophilatelists, Mr. Peter Wingent’s two-volume set published in 1999 and 2005 meticulously documents the operations of Imperial Airways on the Eastern Route during its pioneering years. This is information on all flights between Britain and India & Australia with all intervening halts. Drawing from The Times, Lloyd’s Lists, and original timetables, the author presents a uniquely detailed record of flight movements, schedules, and air mail services.
About the Author
Peter Wingent is a distinguished British aerophilatelist, renowned for his meticulous research into early 20th-century air mail operations. He has served as the editor of the Imperial Airways Gazette since 2003, a specialist publication of the British Air Mail Society (BAMS).More information in the link below.
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British West Africa and the French Air Mail Services to June 1940
British West Africa and the French Air Mail services to June 1940
Author Barbara Priddy © 2021
This is a detailed survey of the French air mail services serving British West Africa until WWII. It was first published in “Cameo”, the Journal of the West Africa Study Circle, in six parts. It has been consolidated into book form as a convenience to members and other readers, having been slightly edited by Rob May FRPSL. The list of the original Cameo articles and now chapters in the book are:
Chapter 1
- The Toulouse – Dakar Service Stage 1 1926-1934
- The Toulouse – Dakar Service Stage 2 1926-1934
- The Toulouse – Dakar Service Stage 3 1926-1934Chapter 2
- The Transsaharan ServiceChapter 3
- Aéromaritime, the Coastal ServiceChapter 4
- September 1939 – June 1940Many first flight covers, commercial covers and crash covers are shown, all in color. There are many rate charts, timetables and route maps, as well as detailed descriptions of the various services.
There is a useful list of 16 references as well as in index.The book is soft cover, 82 pages, and is available from:
Rob May, Longdown Farm Cottage, Cadsden, Princes Risborough, Bucks, HP27 0NB, UK.Price:
UK£16.00 plus £2.00 P&P within the UK
UK€19.20 plus €6.30 P&P to Europe by airmail
US$21.70 plus US$11.30 P&P worldwide by airmailOrders can be placed by e-mail to robert.may@cantab.net
By UK Sterling cheque, to include postage, payable to West Africa Study Circle.
For payment in dollars or euros please use Paypal to the benefit of treasurer@wasc.org.uk, or pay by BACS transfer after contacting the Treasurer, Philip Quirk on that e-mail.Reviewed by Ken Sanford
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Pan American's Final Flight - © 2021 - Jon E. Krupnick
Pan American's Final Flight
Author Jon E. Krupnick
This book shows Jon Krupnick’s award winning exhibit of historic Pan Am flight covers – 1933 to 1941. There are introductions by Jimmy Buffet and Warren Buffet. Chapter 1: Pan Am Clippers Conquer the Pacific, shows the aircraft used by Pan Am for development of its airmail routes from August 1933 to December 1941 as well as a route map. Many rare survey flight covers are shown, including a unique cover addressed to President Franklin Rossevelt from the 1st survey flight from San Francisco to Honolulu in April 1935. This is followed by survey flight covers to Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam & Manila, the 1st press flight and then the 1st passenger flight in October 1936.
The next section shows rare covers from the first survey flight to Kingman Reef and Auckland, New Zealand as well as covers flown on the extension flight to Macau and Hong Kong, and the highest franking recorded on covers to China. Covers are shown from the 2nd and 3rd South Pacific survey flights and covers intended for the ill-fated survey flight from Pago Pago, American Samoa in which Edwin Musick was killed. Many different covers are shown from both routes – FAM-14 & FAM-19 through to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
There are covers shown which were carried between Asia and the UK and the USA on the “Horseshoe Route” after the 2nd World War closed the Mediterranean air routes. Many covers are shown from FAM-19, the South Pacific route from July 1940 to December 1941, as well as many covers carried on the FAM-14 route through December 1941.
The final chapter shows Whipple S. Hall flight covers from the 1st to the 29th flight. Mr. Hall , who had a paper and stationary business in Manila, created a series of unique covers that included crew signatures and flight details found nowhere else. This is first time many of these covers have been shown in print. The book ends with a bibliography and in index.
The book shows this fantastic collection in color and will be essential to collectors of Pan American World Airways covers.
Information
Soft cover, spiral bound, 117 pages. Available in 2 sizes:
- 11 x 17 inch – US$125.00 plus $8.00 shipping with the USA
- 7 ¼ x 11 inch – US$75.00 plus $8.00 shipping within the USA.
Shipping will be higher to non-US countries.
Published by Minuteman Press Toledo, Maumee, Ohio, USA, 2021.
Available at: https://www.ebay.com under BooksReviewed by Ken Sanford
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Pioneer Aviation in the Channel Islands - © 2021 - Roger E. Harris
Pioneer Aviation in the Channel Islands
Author Roger E. Harris - 2 Volumes
Volume 1: Dawn to 1933 (278 pages)
Volume 2: 1934 – 1947 (306 pages)The author Roger Harris has been a member of the Channel Islands Specialists’ Society in the UK for over 50 years. The Society published his first Channel Islands history work in 1979 when he wrote “Islanders Deported”, the illustrated history of Islanders deported and interned in Germany during the German occupation and their postal services back to the Channel Islands. In 1980 he changed careers from teaching to become a BBC TV Production Designer and then freelance feature film designer. Now retired from filming he has completed his lifetime’s research on pioneer aviation in the Channel Islands that has also been published in two volumes by the Channel Islands Specialists’ Society.
Pioneer Aviation In The Channel Islands is the first comprehensive history of aviation in the Channel Islands, spanning from the dawn of aviation with balloon flight, through two World Wars to the nationalisation of the commercial air industry in 1947 and the last pioneer flight to the Islands in 1952.
The author’s intention has been to record every known flight to, or within the Islands, with descriptions of the aircraft flown and each pilot and passenger identified. There are biographies of the more famous or infamous characters involved including famous pilots and lady aviators, honoured war heroes, brave experimenters, entrepreneurs and even a treacherous aristocratic spy saved from prosecution by Sir Winston Churchill. One of the most interesting people recorded is a Jersey resident who was Britain’s richest and possibly most beautiful and eccentric woman who started life as a show girl but went on to be one of the first five women to be awarded the title of Dame of the British Empire. Her philanthropic financing of the development of the Spitfire helped save the R.A.F. in the Battle of Britain.
Over eleven hundred original photographs and images from the author’s own lifetime collections illustrate the two volumes of the book. These include postcards, photographs, posters, timetables, tickets, ephemera and airmail letters; many of which are very rare or even unique. As a novel addition and an aid and encouragement to collectors, the author has awarded each of these illustrations a “Collector’s Value” at 2020 market prices.
For the aviation historian and interested layman, Pioneer Aviation In The Channel Islands is a fully illustrated and comprehensive history of the development of flight in the Islands and for the collectors of aviation ephemera or airmail first flight covers, the book is a complete record and catalogue of every item available to the interested collector and researcher. The reader will discover that the book is much more than just a history of aviation and aerophilately in the Channel Islands.
Information
Available from: Richard Flemming, 64 Falconers Green, Burbage, Hinckley, Leicester LE10 2SX, United Kingdom
E-mail: secretary@ciss.uk
Payment by Bank transfer or PayPal (Friends and Family) details from above.Two Volumes £60
Postage & Packing for two volumes:
- Europe: Royal Mail International Standard £15.25 + £1.50 package
- USA: Royal Mail (6-7 working days) £30.45 + £1.50 package - Up to 42 days delivery £12.24 + £1.50 package
- Australasia: £30.70 + £1.50 package (6-7 working days) - Up to 84 days £12.95 + £1.50 packageReviewed by Ken Sanford
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Australian Airmails Across the Pacific Ocean 1937-1951 - © 2021 - Laurence Kimpton
Australian Airmails Across the Pacific Ocean, 1937 – 1951
Author: Laurence Kimpton
Over the past 35 years or so there has been increased interest in the airmails of the Second World War, encouraged by the research of various aerophilatelists and postal historians. About 20 years ago Bill Legg, member of The British Society of Australian Philately (BSAP) and the British Air Mail Society, acquired copies of various Tables of Air Mail Charges, Air Mail Schedules and Air Mail Notices of the Australian Post Office dating from 1939 to 1945. It then became possible to work out air mail rates on covers flown across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, often with high frankings. This led the author to write articles for the BSAP's Bulletin (in 2006) and the British Air Mail Society's journal Air Mail News (in 2016 and 2017) on Australian airmails across the Pacific Ocean to North America and Europe between 1937 and 1945.
This book is a revised and considerably expanded version of the articles in Air Mail News, with much additional information and many more illustrations. Much more consideration is given to incoming mail and mail in transit through Australia. Content also includes mail which was sent across the Pacific to USA or Canada by ship and then forwarded by air to Europe. Also, the subject has been extended to consider mail carried on survey and other special flights, American forces mail and the restoration and development of trans-Pacific services from Australia in the immediate post war period.
Besides the Australian Post Office's tables and notices, for mail to and from the United Kingdom, the GPO's Overseas Mail Branch's Weekly Reports and the Air Ministry's Civil Aviation Intelligence Reports Summaries (compiled by Peter Wingent) were very useful sources. Research on New Zealand airmails, particularly by Robin Startup (author of Airmails of New Zealand, Volume 3, International Airmails 1940-1970) and by Robert Clark (compiler of the website www.nzstamps.org.uk) has also provided much information relevant to Australian airmails. A variety of aerophilatelic and aviation history books have also been of help in producing this book, especially in providing details of survey and other special flights.
The covers are in full color and are very good quality. There are a number of maps, charts and airline timetables, which are very useful. There are also seldom seen photos of some of the aircraft involved.
The various chapters in the book are as follows: - Introduction
- Chapter 1: Airmail via PAA’s North Pacific Service (FAM 14) from Hong Kong to San Francisco, 1937-1941
- Chapter 2: Airmail via PAA’s South Pacific Service (FAM 19) from Auckland to San Francisco, 1938-1941
- Chapter 3: Mail by Sea across the Pacific with Onward Air Transport, 1942-1945
- Chapter 4: Survey Flights, Special Flights and Mail via Trans-Pacific Military Services, 1939-1945
- Chapter 5: Restoration and Development of Trans-Pacific Services, 1945-1951- Appendix 1: Australian Trans-Pacific / Trans-Atlantic Air Mail Rates
- Appendix 2: Locations of United States Army and Navy Post Offices in Australia
- Appendix 3: The Flying Boats of Pan American Airways
- Appendix 4: The Airliners of British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines
- Appendix 5: British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Timetables
The book is very well written and will be essential for collectors of trans-Pacific airmails for the period covered.
Information
Published May 2021
140 pages, over 220 illustrations (almost all in colour), A4, laminated card cover. Price: UK£20.00.
Order from Laurence Kimpton l.j.kimpton@blueyonder.co.uk, 20, Greytree Crescent, Dorridge, Solihull. B93 8SL, United Kingdom.
Postage within UK: £3.50 (first class).
Postage to outside UK (below cost): Europe £6.50, Australia & New Zealand £12.00, USA £11.00, Rest of World £10.00.
Payment by bank transfer, £ Sterling cheque or by Paypal (outside UK only).Reviewed by Ken Sanford
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First Airmail USA-France 1927 - © 2017 - Jean-Pierre Dupont
First Airmail USA-France 1927 Jean-Pierre Dupont est le conservateur du musée de Ver-sur-Mer. Cet ouvrage de 40 pages très abondamment illustré relate l’histoire du premier vol aéropostal entre les États-Unis et la France sur le Fokker « America » par l’équipage R.E. Byrd, G.O. Noville, B. Acosta et B. Balchen (New York 29 juin - Ver-sur-Mer 1 juillet 1927).
Il a été publié à l’occasion du 90ème anniversaire de ce vol historique. Les textes sont bilingues français et anglais.
Ce livre publié aux éditions OREP est disponible au prix de 10 € à la boutique du musée (Musée America, 2 place l’Amiral Byrd, F-14114 Ver-sur-Mer), ou par correspondance au prix de 15€ : http://www.goldbeachmusee.fr/ ; tel : 02 31 22 58 58.
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Airmail from Bulgaria - © 2016 - Richard Saundry
F.I.S.A. Board Member Richard Saundry is the author of this original article and presents this paper to FISA as a first publication (première). It is a rather long but original, hopefully controversial article about Bulgarian airmails.