Australia - International - APO period: 1955-1974.
Overseas Telegram transmission form: IAA-TT-7.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number TX 47.
Heading is OVERSEAS TELEGRAM.
Message area: 10 dotted lines for the message.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Blue on white.
Size of form overall: 253 × 205 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:

 

!AA-TT-7A
Printed in 1969.		 IAA-TT-7A.

Unused transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • has changeover form number of TX (T.G.) 47.
  • has authority name AUSTRALIAN POST OFFICE in reverse printed box;
  • there is an additional line under the TO box.
IAA-TT-7
Printed in 1972.		 IAA-TT-7B.

Used transmission form for telegram from Pyrmont to Scotland on 13 January 1975.

Characteristics:

  • has authority name AUSTRALIAN POST OFFICE in reverse printed box;
  • line under the TO box has been removed.
13B rev Reverse side of the above transmission form(ON/C4254/72-L) showing paument of $2.13 telegraph charge with 42 5c Pioneer Socoety stamps plus one 3c Coral Crab.
BH 1974
Printed in 1973.		 IAA-TT-7B.

Transmission form used at Brickfield Hill with the message sent to New York on 12 December 1974.

 

The telegraph charge was $4.40 for 22 words and it was paid by $1 Lambert and four 10c 1974 Christmas with the $3.00 balance of the franking in 6c orange QE2 on the reverse side (see below).
BH 1974 rev IAA-TT-7B.

Reverse side of the transmission form used at Brickfield Hill with the message sent to New York on 12 December 1974.

The block of 50 6c orange QE2 on the reverse side to make up the $3.00 balance of the charge.
!AA-TT-7B piece Although not a complete form, this piece shows the use of one of the TT-7B Overseas Telegram transmission forms.

The characteristics in the heading box confirm this form as being TX 47.

Nice franking used at Caulfield East on 6 May 1975. The form would have been illegally obtained and this piece torn off for the vaue of the stamps (insignificant compared to the value of the intact form).
IAA-TT-7C canada IAA-TT-7C.

Used at Balgowlah for transmission to Canada
(22 August 1978).

Cost for 42 words was $8.40. A $2 Heysen landscape is affixed to the front. For the remainder of the payment, see below.

Characteristics:

  • Authority name has been removed from the reverse printed heading - probably because this printing was made at about the time of the changeover in 1975 to Telecom.
Canada rev AA-TT-7C.

Reverse side of the transmission form used for the message to Canada.

The balance of $6.40 is receipted by the stamps shown on this side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(I guess you checked and it did work out?
England rev IAA-TT-7C.

Reverse side of another form also used at Balgowlah on 22 August 1978.

Payment for the 15 word message sent at the GLT class (see front of form) to Cambridge, England was $1.37.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Yes this one worked also
.... didn't it)?

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
TT-7A O/N 3857/69 - P.E.B.   RR (used).
       
TT-7B ON/ C4254/72 - L 7 March 1975 at Caulfield East, Vic. RR (used).
  O/N C43178/73-L 5 December 1974 at Brickfield Hill, NSW. RR (used).
  O/N C45392/74-L    
TT-7C Sch. CT. 8341/75 22 August 1978 at Balgowlah, NSW. RR (used).