The History of the Postmarks of the British Isles from 1840 to 1876 - John Hendy (1909)

72 THE POSTMARKS OF THE BRITISH ISLES FROM ISJfi.
Fig. 436.
Portsmouth Sorting Carriage.
Fig. 437.
London and South Western Railway P.O.
In connection with an important acceleration of mails between London and Paris, a
day mail sorting-carriage was established on the 30th April, i860, to work between
London and Dover. This Travelling Post Office, which was known as the " French
Day Mail," was supplied with the first date-stamp (Fig. 438). Gradually the Travelling
Fig. 43S.
Post Office system became extended over nearly every line of railway in the kingdom,
and regular date-stamps were supplied to all.
In the case of some of the local sorting tenders the stamps in use did not bear
letters to denote whether they were " T. P.O." or " S.T." stamps, as, for instance, that
shown in Fig. 439.
Fig. 439.
Appended is a list of the various Travelling Post Offices which have been estabhshed
from time to time, with some types of postmarks used (Figs. 440-449).
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