1911 (30 Dec), First South African Aerial Post, Second “New Year’s
Day” Flight, Kenilworth–Muizenberg souvenir card to
1911 (30 Dec), First South African Aerial Post, Second “New Year’s
Day” Flight, Kenilworth–Muizenberg souvenir card to Germany,
bearing single ½d King Edward VII, cancelled by Wynberg Cape
c.d.s., dual circular First South African / Aerial Post /
Kenilworth datestamps (30 Dec), with crisp Muizenberg and Cape Town
c.d.s. (3 Jan), usual edge wear, but an elusive card from this
delayed flight. The Aerial Post was re-opened for a second mail
intended for New Year’s Day; adverse weather delayed departure
until the evening of 2 January, when pilot Cecil Compton Paterson
Driver again flew from Kenilworth carrying 1,479 items of mail to
Muizenberg.
