Australia - War and recovery: 1940-1957.
Ordinary rate delivery form: AW-DO-10 (51).

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: 1951 printing: Form number T.G. 42.
Standard heading above TELEGRAM.
Message area: Blank.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Blue on cream.
Size of form overall: A: 100 × 184 mm.
B: 111 × 196 mm.
BB: 102 × 214 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
AW-DO-10A (51)
Printed in August 1951.		 AW-DO-10A (51).

Hobart to Whitemark.
27 August 1953.

Characteristics:

  • thick sans-serif letters in TELEGRAM;
  • printing date in schedule number is centered;
  • 2nd last line in LH box ends with "shown".

Printed in August 1951.		 AW-DO-10B (51).

Victoria Markets, Melbourne to Camberwell
25 March 1953.

Characteristics:

  • printing date in schedule number is left justified;
  • 2nd last line in LH box ends with "at".

 
51-AW-DO-10BB
Printed in August 1951.		 AW-DO-10BB (51).

Sydney to Hamilton, NSW
4 December 1954

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Characteristics:

  • printing date in schedule number is left justified;
  • 2nd last line in LH box ends with "at".

 
Petrov

AW-DO-10BB (51).

Canberra for local delivery.
20 April 1954.

Has Telegraphs Canberra date stamp.

Report of a major incident - the Petrov Affair - in Australia's political history.
Petrova Mrs Evdokia Petrov being escorted to the plane on 19 April.

Menzies then decided he could not allow a person to be forcibly removed from Australian soil and ordered ASIO to take Mrs Petrov from the plane while it was refuelling at Darwin.

She then joined her husband Vladimir who had been granted political asylum on 3 April 1954 - but he had not yet informed his wife.

The couple became Australian citixens in 1956. Vladamir (then called Sven Allyson) died in 1991 while Evdokia (then called Maria Anna Allyson) died in 2002.

Source: Wikipedia.

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
10A (51) Sch. C. 6589 8/51. 22 July 1953 at Scottsdale, Tasmania. C
10B (51) Sch. C. 6589 8/1951. 16 October 1952 at Telegraph Office
Oxford Street, NSW.		 C
10BB (51) Sch. C. 6589 8/1951 20 April 1954 at Telegraphs Canberra, A.C.T. C

 

 

 


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