TC-TU-1

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	No form number. TASMANIA above Crest with ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH on either side of the Crest. URGENT. printed vertically in orange.
Message area:	7 lines.
Reverse side:	Blank.
Colours (text & form):	Black on light grey.
Size of form overall:	169 × 215 mm.

has the same basic format as for TC-TO-3C which was used during the early 1880s.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

centre line "Received..." ends with "message";
line above sender details ends with "Tasmania".

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
DO-1A	None	4 July 1905 at Burnie.	NC

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This is the only known example of a Tasmanian urgent rate transmission form from the Colonial period.

Provenance: Clemente, Johnstone.

TC-TU-1.

Unused urgent rate transmission form.

Characteristics:

almost identical with the third format ordinary rate transmission form TC-TO-3C;
has orange vertical text.

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
TU-1	None		RRRR