BarrowE wrote:My thinking is may have ended up at the Uncommon Languages Dept in the UK (after being forwarded first up the chain to Bermuda). This would mean the 20th November NY stamp was an arrival cancel from the UK. Do you have access to a list of those flights?
Also what was the order of events when a cover arrived in the US? Arrival CDS then Censorship, or the reverse.
Thanks again,
Ed
Good afternoon
Uncommon Languages Dept in the UK?
1 - Well... spanish (suposed language of the letter) was one of the languages of the rules.
2 - The attached label/censor seems to be from N. York.
3 - From United Kingdom? Maybe... however...:
3.1 - Your proposal would mean a label/censor number in UK.
3.2 - Here you have the trip without number - Dixie Clipper - NY(6/Nov/42) -> Bermuda (6-7/Nov) ->Lisbon/Foynes (10/Nov) -> Foynes/Lisbon (11/Nov) -> P.R./San Juan (14/Nov) -> Bermuda (15/Nov) -> N. York (16/Nov) (1)
3.3 - I have not timetables from Argentina on (or I guess that I have not...).
4 - I guess that after the arrival of the planes firstly was the censorship/customs duties. After that the covers were sent to the post offices/distribution to the addressees, etc.
(1) - Acc. to PROUD (2008:87) Volume One.
I did not find this flight in Aitink/Hovenkamp (2005), in TSchroots (2016) Deel 2 or Wilson (2012).