Lot 52
1933 (Jan. 25th) postcard carried on private flight from Cape Town to Broken Hill ‡

The Moody Tidwell Collection of South Africa, with Important Pioneer Airmails | S26032
Auction: 17 December 2026, 10:00 GMT
Description
1933 (Jan. 25th) Wyndham postcard carried on the new HP42E airliner 'Helena' from Cape Town to Broken Hill, on the return flight from a courtesy visit to South Africa by the Chairman and Managing Director of Imperial Airways. Broken Hill arrival of 27th Jan on reverse. Tiny tear at top of the card. Offered on display page with a Jan 2nd Wyndham cover to Elizabethville, carried on the first Union Airways Durban to Johannesburg flight, Imperial Airways AN 96 to Broken Hill and thence by Aero Klub du Katanga first flight of feeder service to Elizabethville

