IAC-DO-3

Australia - International - Cable & Wireless.
Delivery form: IAC-DO-3.

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Special aspects

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Cable & Wireless - also Eastern Extensionon the earlier printings in Australia.
Message area:	Blank.
Reverse side:	Blank.
Colours (text & form):	Red on cream.
Size of form overall:	202 × 195 mm (later to 200 mm wide).
Size of datestamp box:	33 mm diameter.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

first form with Cable & Wireless at top;
printed in Australia;
probably all bound into pads with rubberised compound at the top. Only DO-3B is recorded as definitely being like this.

Cable & Wireless devolved responsibility for some aspects - including printing to some of the former Colonies.
Instructions from England of course had to followed. Hence the first printings in Australia of the delivery forms for international telegrams reversed the order of the organisations to make Cable & Wireless the lead organisation. Contractual obligations, related especially to the cable operation, made it a requirement to continue to use the reference to The Eastern Extension ... for some time until it was dropped.
Other members of the British Empire, without such a link, used a Cable & Wireless heading only
although many still had their forms printed in Mother England.

Form printed in Australia - date not recorded.	IAC-DO-3A. Empire Forces to Brighton, Vic. 12 August 1944. Note the Cable & Wireless (Melbourne) date stamp. Characteristics: Cable and Wireless is the first named in the heading; Printed in Australia is in the top left corner. The message was originally written in code. The code phrases were numbered 57, 87 and 41. The message had been recorded on ticker tape but was typed on the form after the ticker tape had been interpreted.
	IAC-DO-3B. Unused delivery form. Characteristics: Cable and Wireless is the only company listed in the heading; Printed in Australia is in the top left corner; has "Item 39 - Adv" in the top right corner; printed on thick paper. this particular form has a second form behind it and attached at the top.
	IAC-DO-3B. Unused delivery form. W Birmingham to Melbourne. 21 September 1945. Release of a Prisoner of War. Characteriustics: As for form above but printed on thin paper.
Printed in England in September 1940.	IAC-DO-3C. Overseas to Pascoe Vale, Vic. 23 April 1943. An interesting form in all respects. First - the form was printed in England for use in the West Indies. So how did at least one of the pads make it to Australia? The format is exactly the same as the form above which was printed in Australia. Second - the message was sent from overseas and so it conjures up many possibilities about war-time relationships.

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
DO-3	None	1 September 1942 at C&W then Walkerville, SA.	R