AB-TU-8

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

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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:

heading is in small type in a central box;
has boxed advertisement for MULTIPLE TELEGRAMS lower left corner;
has a single advertisement on the reverse in blue;
has charges in STAMPS box in the top right corner;
the main distinctions between the varieties are:
8A: five lines of text under heading;
8B: four lines of text under heading.

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.
	AB-TU-8A (reverse). Reverse side of the above form. Characteristics: single advertisement. Other advertisements recorded are: Install Extension Telephones; Birthday Greetings, Congratulatory, ...;
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.
	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