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RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Queen Elizabeth, . 1940s

The Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-ADVE
The Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADVE, Centurion, leaving Southampton with the first Empire Mail for South Africa, 29 June 1937. [See also 56005474] Date: 1937

Alcock and Brown are presented with the Daily Mail prize of 10, 000 by Winston Churchill

Departure from Ratmanala Aerodrome Colombo
Departure from Ratmanala Aerodrome, Colombo, of the first Empire Air Mail service, 28 February 1938. Carried by a Waco YQC-6 biplane operated by Tata Air Lines, the 1

U. S. mail steam ship Arctic: Collins line builders, hull by
U.S. mail steam ship Arctic: Collins line builders, hull by Wm. H. Brown N.Y. engines by Stillman Allen & Co. Novelty Works N.Y. Date c1850. U.S

A midnight race on the Mississippi. Date c1890

S Teerwood. The mail van
A red mail van stops at a remote village in the Scottish Highlands to collect and deliver post

Journalists Type Copy
Journalists at the Daily Mail type up copy

William the Conqueror
WILLIAM I THE CONQUEROR dressed for conquest in his suit of mail, with broadsword and shield

Advertisement for the Daily Mail newspaper, superimposed on a black and white photograph of a busy street. early 20th century

RMS Moldavia - P&O Line - in harbour at Dover. Date: circa 1910s

P&O RMS Straithaird
India and Australia Mail and Passenger Service - the P&O vessel RMS Straithaird - 22, 500 tonnes. Date: circa 1910s

Taking aboard the first Empire Air Mail (Great Britain to South Africa) to be transported by Imperial Airways S23 C-Class flying boat, G-ADVE, Centurion, Southampton, 29 June 1937

Cover design, Pan American Airways timetable
Cover design, Pan American Airways System Atlantic Service timetable, serving Bermuda, America and Europe. July 1939

Tournament joust
They rode at full gallop till they met

Advert for Royal Mail Line cruises, 1927, London Date: 1927

Horse mail, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Delivery of the mail by horse to the Post Office in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

RMS Carnarvon Castle Passing the Needles, 1927
Illustration of the Union-Castle Line Royal Mail Motorship Carnarvon Castle passing the Needles, Isle of Wight, on its way to South Africa

Photo Equipment Rust
The Daily Mail photographer Frank Rust with an array of photographic equipment

Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter
The aviator Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter which he himself will transport by air to Windsor. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

Gustav Hamel signing receipt for mail, Hendon
The aviator Gustav Hamel in the cockpit of his aeroplane, signing the official receipt for the mail, just before setting out from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor on the very first airmail flight

English Rural Postman
An English rural postman collects the mail from a letter-box

Mail Aeroplane 1970S
First Class mail being unloaded from a plane into a General Post Office (Royal Mail) van, Britain

Irish Contry Postman
Irish country postman delivering the mail

Mail Steamer, 1940S
Loading mail boxes onto the steamer at the Kyles of Bute, Argyllshire, Scotland

Chap Posts a Letter
A smart cyclist stops to pop a letter into a Royal Mail letterbox

Parcel Delivery Tricycle
A Royal Mail parcels post delivery tricycle

Receiving Valentines
Two girls have been waiting eagerly for the post on Saint Valentines Day : now one of them holds out her pinafore to receive her share from the postman

Trinidad Postman
A postman in the (then) British colony of Trinidad is offered a pineapple by a grateful recipient of mail

Social / Bolivia Postman
In the mountainous terrain of Bolivia, a rural postman uses mules to carry the mails

Military Postman
A military postman for the British army collecting post from a mail box on an army camp site

Client: Ideal Home - Roden Norman
Client: Ideal Home - Shoot to promote the selling of advertising space - the Advertisement Manager was Roden Norman (pictured). Date: circa late 1960s

Mail Boat and Ferry Boat, Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Co Dublin
Mail Boat and Ferry Boat, Dun Laoghaire Harbour, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Fokker FXVIII, PH-AIP, Pelikaan, of KLM which in Decemb?
Fokker FXVIII, PH-AIP, Pelikaan, of KLM which in December 1933 flew a special Christmas mail flight to Batavia, completing the round trip in a flight time of 73 hours 34 minutes. Date: 1933

Cowboy riding on horse for the Pony Express Mail Service Date: 1859

Poster for Union Castle / Safmarine boat services Date: circa 1970s

Teddy Tail, Duke of Yorks Theatre, London
Teddy Tail, a childrens fantastic musical play by Charles Folkard, music by Frederic Norton, based on the Teddy Tail comic strip in the Daily Mail newspaper, at the Duke of Yorks Theatre

Mail arriving by boat in Calshot Harbour, Tristan de Cunha
Tristan de Cunha - Mail arriving by boat in Calshot Harbour. Tristan da Cunha, colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean which includes Gough Island

Grand procession at Plymouth on first dispatch of Cape mails
Grand procession to celebrate the port of Plymouth opening up as a Government Mail-packet Station. The Corporations of Plymouth

Capt John Theilmann in Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA, a?
Capt John Theilmann in Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA, at Peterborough prior to the first helicopter-operated public mail service in the UK on 1 June 1948. Date: 1948

Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA, which inugurated the fir?
Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA, which inugurated the first helicopter-operated public mail service in the UK on 1 June 1948, starting from Peterborough. Date: 1948

Khedivial Mail Line S. A. E. T. S. S. El Malek Fouad
Khedivial Mail Line S.A.E. T.S.S. El Malek Fouad. Built in 1947, re-named Nefertiti in 1956 and then re-named Olbia in 1961. Date: 1940s

Delivering mail to a remote Hebrides island, 1940s/50s

Royal Mail postman and donkey

Delivery the post with a donkey, early 1900s

Reading the Daily Mail Newspaper

Steam train picking up mail bag, early 1900s

LNWR and Caledonian Railway Poster Victorian period

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