AW-DU-10

Australia - War and recovery: 1939-1957.
Urgent delivery form: AW-DU-10.

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General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form number T.G. 42A. Heading is URGENT TELEGRAM. Advertising box for MONEY ORDER TELEGRAM in the top left corner.
Message area:	Blank.
Reverse side:	URGENT TELEGRAM in red.
Colours (text & form):	Red on cream.
Size of form overall:	99 (to 103) × 188 (to 191) mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

printed on cream paper with a coloured band across the top section;
reverse side would normally have a coloured band across words URGENT TELEGRAM - but not in the error shown in type 10B;
the main distinctions between the varieties are:
10A: pink band;
10B: pink band but no letters on reverse side;
10C: orange band.

Although it is thought that another Urgent Rate delivery form was printed in 1958 with the Australian Post Office heading, such a form has not been cited. Hence this format is the last of the delivery forms printed in Australia for Urgent Rate telegrams. URGENT labels were then affixed to ordinary rate forms. Urgent rate transmission forms were, however, printed until 1972.

Printed in October 1941 - the same printing number as the previous form (AW-DU-9B).	AW-DU-10A. Cooktown, Qld to Hindmarsh, S.A. (12 May 1944). Characteristics: printed on cream paper with pink band over text; URGENT TELEGRAM reverse printed on back in a pink band; size 103 × 190 mm. formatting the same as for AW-DU-9B. This form was an emergency war-time printing because of the difficulty in obtaining pink paper.
	AW-DU-10A (reverse). Reverse side of above delivery form showing reverse printing in pink.
	AW-DU-10B. Non-disclosed location because of the War to Townsville, Qld (11 August 1944). Characteristics: printed on cream paper with pink band over text; URGENT TELEGRAM NOT printed on reverse side although there is a printed pink band; no schedule number; size 101 × 184 mm. formatting the same as for AW-DU-9B.
	AW-DU-10B (reverse). Reverse side of above delivery form showing printing of band in pink but no letters. Only two examples recorded with this possible error in the printing.
Printed in 1942.	AW-DU-10C. St. Kilda Rail, Vic to Yerong, Qld. 26 September, 1944. Characteristics: printed on cream paper with orange band over text; reverse side has the orange band across form but no text; schedule number is very different format - 42/68141. Clearly an urgent, economy printing during the War.

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
DU-10A	Sch. C. 3458 - 10/1941.	15 January 1943 at Liverpool NSW.	RRR
DU-10B	No Schedule number.	11 August 144 at T.O. Townsville, Qld	RRRR
DU-10C	42/68141	26 September 1944 at Yerong, Qld.	RR