Australia - Brown years: 1923-1939.
Urgent rate transmission form: AB-TU-8.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number T.G. 41A.
Heading is TELEGRAM/URGENT RATE.
Message area: 30 boxes in six lines.
Reverse side: One large advertisement printed in blue with Hermes (type 2).
Colours (text & form): Blue on dull pink.
Size of form overall: 127 × 204 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
TU-8A
Printed in November 1936.		 AB-TU-8A.

Unused urgent rate transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • both lines of the heading in text of the same size;
  • "This message ..." in central box in 5 lines.
  • printed in darker pink;
  • TELEGRAM is in wider and more rounded letters than in type 8B.
TU-8A rev AB-TU-8A (reverse).
Reverse side of the above form.

Characteristics:

  • single advertisement.

Other advertisements recorded are:

  • Install Extension Telephones;
  • Birthday Greetings, Congratulatory, ...;

 
TU-8B
Printed in November 1937.		 AB-TU-8B.

Unused urgent rate transmission form.

  • lines of the heading in text of different sizes;
  • "This message ..." in central box on 4 lines.
  • printed in lighter pink;
  • TELEGRAM is in narrower font than in type TU-8A.

 
TU-8B rev AB-TU-8B (reverse).
Reverse side of the above form.

Characteristics:

  • has box below advertisement for details of Sender which will not be transmitted.

 

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
TU-8A Sch. C. 1672 - 11/1936.   R
TU-8B Sch. C. 1958. - 11/1937. - 7065.   R