AB-TU-12

Australia - War and the recovery: 1940-1957.
Urgent rate transmission form: AW-TU-12.

Home, index, site details
Australia 1901-1988
New South Wales
Queensland
- Overview of Qld
  - General developments
  - Reports
- Telegraph lines
- Telegraph Offices
  - Listing of TOs
  - GPO & CTO
- Date stamps
- Forms
- Envelopes
  - Ordinary rate
  - Urgent rate
- Rates
- Stamps
- Ephemera
South Australia
- Overview of SA
  - General Developments
  - Reports
- Organisation
- Telegraph lines
- Telegraph offices
- Date stamps
  - Overview
  - Central Office date stamps
- Forms
  - Colonial period
  - Interim period
- Envelopes
- Rates
- Stamps
Tasmania
- Overview of Tasmania
  - General developments
  - Reports
- Organisation
- Telegraph lines
  - Overview of lines
  - Cable to Vic
- Telegraph Offices
  - Listing of TOs
  - GPO & CTO
- Date stamps
- Forms
  - Colonial forms - all
  - Interim forms - all
- Envelopes
- Railway lines
- Rates
- Stamps
Victoria
- Overview of Victoria
  - General Developments
  - Reports
- Organisation
- Telegraph lines
- Telegraph Offices
  - Listing of TOs
  - GPO & CTO
- Date stamps
- Forms
- Envelopes
  - Colonial period
  - Interim period
- Rates
- Stamps
  - Telegraph stamps
  - Postage stamps
- Ephemera
  - Frank stamps
Western Australia
International
Special aspects

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form number T.G. 41A. URGENT TELEGRAM in two lines in central box.
Message area:	25 boxes in 5 lines.
Reverse side:	Blank.
Colours (text & form):	Black on salmon-pink.
Size of form overall:	104 × 190 mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

no charges listed on the form;
box at right changed to CASH REGISTER OR STAMPS;
reverse side is blank;
thick black letters in heading;
the main distinctions between the varieties are:
12A: lower left corner is blank;
12B: lower left corner has a text box about "sender's signature".

AW-TU-12A

Printed August 1950.

AW-TU-12A.

Unused transmission form.

Characteristics:

printed in black;
lower left corner is blank.

12A used

AW-TU-12A.

Used at Melbourne
26 June 1953.

Same form number as previously but a used example informing a family that their son, who was a digger, had been wounded in action.

TU-12B

AW-TU-12B.

Unused transmission form.

Characteristics:

printed in blue;
lower left corner has a box about "sender's signature...".

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
TU-12A	Sch. C. 6361-8/50.	26 June 1953 at Melbourne.	NC
TU-12B	Sch. C. 6621- 10/51.		NC