Australia - Brown years: 1917-1922.
Urgent rate transmission form: AB-TU-4.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form Number E.T. No. 1a.
TELEGRAM - URGENT RATE in one or two lines.
Four boxed sections.
Message area: 30 boxes in six lines.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Black on deep pink.
Size of form overall: 127 × 201 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
TU-4A AB-TU-4A.

Unused urgent rate transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • heading is in two lines;
  • TO is in serif italic font;
  • text at base is in a block in the lower right corner;
  • FROM at the base has two lines;
  • the Schedule number in the lower left corner begins "Sched.".
TU-4B
Printed in 1927.		 AB-TU-4B.

Unused (and torn) urgent rate transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • heading is in one line;
  • TO is in sans-serif font;
  • in section at right "FOR OFFICE ..." recording the details of the transmission, second entry is "To".
  • text at base is in two lines separated by two dotted lines for written details of the sender;
  • the Schedule number in the lower left corner begins "Sch.".

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
TU-4A Sched. C. 107 - 6/1926. None seen used. R
TU-4B Sch. C220/1927. - Z7 None seen used. R