Australia - War and the recovery: 1940-1957.
Urgent rate transmission form: AW-TU-10.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number T.G. 41A.
URGENT TELEGRAM in two lines in central box.
Message area: 25 boxes in 5 lines.
Reverse side: URGENT TELEGRAM printed in red.
Colours (text & form): Red on cream.
Size of form overall: 100 × 2193 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
AW_TU_10A
Printed December 1943.		 AW-TU-10A.

To Zillmere, Qld on 3 August 1965.

Characteristics:

  • thick vertical lines on each side of the centre box;
  • "transmission" is hyphenated;
  • "The address ..." is in lower case letters;
  • letters on the reverse side span about 132 mm except for the 1948 printing which spans 128 mm.

Very late usage (22 years after printing) but not unusual - newer forms were placed on top of old ones in the Post Offices and hence some old forms had been at the bottom of the pile for many years.
AW_TU_10B
Printed July 1946.		 AW-TU-10B.

Unused transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • thin vertical lines on each side on centre box;
  • "transmission" is not hyphenated;
  • "The address ..." is in small upper case letters;
  • very different format for the schedule number;
  • text in lower left box is all capitals.
AW_TU_10B_rev Reverse side of form 10B.
140 mm wide.
AW_TU_10C
Printed in September 1947.		 AW-TU-10C.

Unused transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • thin vertical lines on each side on centre box;
  • "transmission" is not hyphenated;
  • "M" of TELEGRAM has straight legs;
  • "The address ..." is in larger upper case letters;
  • letters on the reverse side span 125 mm;
  • text in lower left box is capitalsand lower case.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
10A Sch. C. 4325 - 12/1943 3 August 1965 at Zillmere, Qld. RR used
  Sch. C. 4495 - 8/1944.   C unused
  Sch. C. 4758 - 7/1945.  
  Sch. C. 5724 - 7/1948.  
10B Sch. C. 505 - 7/1946 -
M.P. 35424 S		  
10C Sch. C. 5449 - 9/1947.