STAMPING SOU VENIR FLIGHT COVERS FOR AIR RACE.—About 26,000 souvenir flight covers will be carried in the London-Christ-Church air race by the Roal New Zealand Air Force Hastings aircraft entered in the transport handicap section of the race. The covers will be flown to London as mail and brought back as freight. This photograph, taken on Saturday in the office of the Air R ace Council’s secretary (Mr S. M. Graham), shows helpers fixing Coronation stamps to some of the souvenir covers.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 5
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82STAMPING SOUVENIR FLIGHT COVERS FOR AIR RACE.—About 26,000 souvenir flight covers will be carried in the London-Christ-Church air race by the Roal New Zealand Air Force Hastings aircraft entered in the transport handicap section of the race. The covers will be flown to London as mail and brought back as freight. This photograph, taken on Saturday in the office of the Air Race Council’s secretary (Mr S. M. Graham), shows helpers fixing Coronation stamps to some of the souvenir covers. Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 5
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