Australia - Brown years: 1917-1922.
Urgent rate transmission form: AB-TU-3
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General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form Number E.T. No. 1a.
URGENT TELEGRAM.
Message area: 25 boxes in five lines.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Black on salmon pink (orange).
Size of form overall: 127 × 199 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
No image is presently available.

AB-TU-3A.

Characteristics:

  • large rectangular box for date stamp;
  • charges are summarised in one line.

 

AB-TU-3BPossibly printed in 1926. AB-TU-3B.

Unused (and torn) transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • small circular box
    (24 mm in diameter) for date stamp;
  • charges are summarised in two lines;
  • in section at right recording the details of the transmission, second entry is "Line".

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number
Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
TU-3A St 156   R
TU-3B B 1129   R