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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE
Author: Peter Johnson
Mail was first sorted on a moving train in a converted horse box on the Grand Junction Railway, between Liverpool and Manchester, in January 1838 at the suggestion of Frederick Karstadt, a Post Office surveyor. Karstadt's son was one of two mail clerks who did the sorting. In 1845 the service was extended via Derby to Newcastle upon Tyne by the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780860936206
ISBN-10: 0860936201
Pages: 112
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Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
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