Philatelic Literature Specialists

Annual Report on the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department for the Year 1936-37

Publisher: Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department, New Delhi, 1938

Hardback, black cloth gilt, v + 67 pages + plates + xiii charts + folding telephone map of India, binding slightly rubbed, ex-Sir Frank Noyce with his name in gilt to front cover [Sir Frank Noyce, KCSI, CBE (4 June 1878 – 7 October 1948) was a member of the Indian Civil Service and member of Governor General’s Executive Committee in charge of industries and labour from 1932 to 1937] and ex-India Study Circle Library with bookplate inside front cover, in Good condition.

Rare official publication containing a huge amount of information on the Indian posts and telegraphs. Illustrated with black & white photo-plates (including ‘Wreck of “Athena”, the Indian Trans-continental Airways plane, which was destroyed by fire at the Delhi aerodrome on the 29th September 1936. The salvaged mails are spread out in front’), charts printed in colour, and map.

£60.00