60th AUCTION - day 3

Desaster Mail: 1946, 20 August, New Zealand, Railway accident, cover to Napier w

Desaster Mail

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1946, 20 August, New Zealand, Railway accident, cover to Napier with straight lines "DAMAGED THROUGH IMMERSION IN MANAWATU RIVER RAILWAY ACCIDENT" on front/on reverse. In the morning of 20 August, a landslide hit the Palmerston North-Napier freight train just outside the Manuwatu Gorge, the engine and three cars, incl. the mail car, fell into the river killing the train driver and his fireman. Mail was saved some days later when the river had fallen.

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Condition: Cover