Catalogue description Post Office: Inland Air Mail Services

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Details of POST 13
Reference: POST 13
Title: Post Office: Inland Air Mail Services
Description:

This series contains records related solely to inland air mail services. It comprises reports on the night air mail service, and agreements with airlines.

Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
Note: Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue.
Date: 1935-1971
Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically
Related material:

For overseas air mail records see POST 50

For air mail records during the war see POST 56
Held by: The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 4 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The first air mail service within the United Kingdom was from Hendon to Windsor in 1911, to mark the coronation of King George V. The few letters that were carried bore the post-mark 'First United Kingdom Aerial Post'.

A major advance in inland services came in 1934 with the introduction of the town-to-town service with routes nation-wide.

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