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    • Experimental & Survey Flights. >
      • 1931 England - Australia Flight >
        • 1st Experimental Flight
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      • 1938 Flying Boat Coogee
  • Tata Airlines
    • 1932 - Karachi - Madras >
      • Official Southbound
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      • Other Southbound
      • Other Northbound
      • Other Material
    • 1933 - Karachi - Madras via Poona
    • 1935 Karachi - Madras via Hyderabad >
      • 1935 - Karachi - Madras via Hyderabad
      • 1935 Bombay-Hyderabad Errors on Stamp
    • 1935 - Bombay - Calcutta demonstration flight
    • 1935 - Bombay - Travancore via Goa & Cannanore
    • 1936 - Madras to Colombo via Trichinopoly
    • 1937 - First Flight to Bhuj
    • 1937 - Delhi - Bombay via Gwalior, Bhopal & Indore
    • 1938 - Karachi - Madras extension to Colombo via Trichnopoly
    • 1938 - Trichinopoly - Trivandrum extension
    • 1938 - Mansoon halt at Poona
    • 1946 - Bombay - Calcutta via Nagpur
  • Air-India
    • 1948 Air-India International Bombay - London Flight >
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      • The Postage Stamp
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      • Special Flight Cachet
      • Postage Rates gallery
      • Local Cancellations
      • Private Covers Gallery
      • Interesting Places of Origin & Destinations >
        • Interesting Destinations
        • Interesting Places of Origin
        • Interesting Places of Origin & Destinations
      • More interesting covers
      • Return Flight covers
      • Other Philatelic Curiosities
      • Award winning exhibit
    • 1948 - 1953 Early Route Expansion
    • 1954 - 1959 Early Route Expansion
    • 1960 - 1965 Air-India Boeing 707 Era.
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    • Postal Meter panels
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      • LZ-13 Hansa
      • LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin
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33-90
England-India extension from Rangoon to Singapore by Imperial Airways


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The Rangoon-Singapore extension of the route as from December 1933
By kind permission of Peter Wingent

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UK Post office Special notice (undated) annoucing the extension of the route to Singapore.

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E 1-1, Rangoon to Bangkok

E 1-2, Rangoon - Bandon

E 1-3, Rangoon - Alor Star
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December 1933 opening of the Imperial Airways & Indian Trans-Continental Airways regular service extension to Singapore.
15 Dec 1933 first flight from Rangoon on the above service to Alor Star (Kedah)

E 1-4, Rangoon - Singapore
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33-95: Cover posted from Peshawar and oliterated with the boxed rectangular postal cancellation PESHAWAR G.P.O., 12 DEC 1933. Cover adddressed to Singapore.

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Impreial Airways souvenir cover postmarked CAWNPORE / 15 DEC 33,  and addressed to Singapore. 

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Imperial Airways extension to Singapore with Indian Trans-Continental Airways
 ISC 33-90: Cover cancelled KARACHI STG / 15 DEC 33 / 2 -P.M. and flown to Singapore on the first flight.

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33-90: Cover flown from Akyab to Singapore on 16 December 1933 Postmarked Akyab Sor 16 DEC.33.

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23 Dec 1933 Tavoy to Cape Town receiving a Christman Day "TOO LATE FOR AIR MAIL" cachet at Rangoon

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33-90: Cover flown from calcutta to Singapore Postmarked Calcuuta G.P.O. 15 DEC. 33, and with an American Express Co. Inc receiving handstamp on the verso dated DEC 19 1933.

E 2-2, Bangkok - Bandon

E 2-3, Bangkok​ - Alor Star

E 2-4, Bangkok​ - Singapore

E 3-3, Bandon - Alor Start

E 3-4, Bandon - Singapore

E 4-4, Alor Star - Singapore

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W 1-1, Singapore - Alor Star

W 1-2, Singapore - Bandon

W 1-3, Singapore - Bangkok

W 1-4, Singapore - Rangoon

W 2-2, Alor Star - Bandon

W 2-3, Alor Star - Bangkok

W 2-4, Alor Star - Rangoon

W 3-3, Bandon - Bangkom 

W 3-4, Bandon - Rangoon

W 4-4, Bangkok - Rangoon

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