AB-DU-8

Australia - Brown years: 1923-1939.
Urgent rate delivery form: AB-DU-8.

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form number T.G. 42A. Heading is RECEIVED TELEGRAM URGENT RATE.
Message area:	Blank - occupies 44% of the form.
Reverse side:	One advertisement printed in blue.
Colours (text & form):	Blue on pink paper.
Size of form overall:	126 × 199 mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

heading has three distinct sections plus the advertising box and date stamp box;
the advertising box has either one or two thin outlines and rounded corners;
the schedule number is in the top right corner of the Remarks box;
heading has been changed to Office of Origin under the advertising box;
has one advertisement on the reverse;
the main distinctions between the varieties are:
8A: two thin lines around the advertising box;
8B: one thin line around the advertising box.

Printed in November 1934.	AB-DU-8A. Perth to Leederville (30 March 1940). Has a rare oval date stamp. Characteristics: has two thin lines around the advertising box in the top left corner.
	AB-DU-8A (reverse). Reverse side of the above delivery form. Characteristics: single advertisement - for ATTRACTIVELY COLOURED ...; image of Hermes is in a circle with an unshaded background.
Printed in November 1936.	AB-DU-8B. Port Headland to Scarborough (11 April 1928 - read 1938). Characteristics: has one thin line around the advertising box in the top left corner. Provenance: M. Brown.
	Reverse side of the telegram to Scarborough shown above. Characteristics: single advertisement - for ... ADVANTAGES OF A TELEPHONE ...; image of Hermes is in an oval with an unshaded background and Hermes leaning forward; the 1936 printing is also known with the "Register Valuable Mail" table of costs; the 1937 printing is also known with the "Postal Precepts" advertisement with the vertcal oval Hernes; the 1936 printing has the "Postal Precepts" advertisement.
	Very rare delivery envelope used to deliver the above DU-8B telegram. It is from the Western Australia Interim period. Very few known.

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
DU-8A	Sch. C1237 11/1934.	12 July 1936 at CTO Sydney (H).	R
DU-8B	Sch. C1672. 11/1936.	11 April 1928 (sic) - read 1938 - at Scarborough, WA.	R
	Sch. C.1958.-11/1937.	20 October 1941 at Montrose, Vic.	R
	Sch. C. 2233 - 11/1938.	July 1941 Relief 14 in South Australia.	R
	Sch. C. 2556 - 10.1939.	25 July 1941 at Canberra Telegraphs.	R