Category: Southern Rhodesia

Details Designer: Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England (all others) Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 1st Printing – 12 (line) 2nd Printing – 12 (line) 3rd Printing – 11.5 (comb) 4th Printing – 11.5 (comb) 5th Printing – 12 (line) 6th Printing – 14 (line) 7th Printing –…

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Details Designer: Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England (all others) Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 1st Printing – 12 (line) 2nd Printing – 12 (line) 3rd Printing – 11.5 (comb) 4th Printing – 12 (line) Plates: Sheet:  Quantity: Printings:  1st Printing – 10 March 1930 2nd Printing –…

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  Bulawayo Vulcanizers was located on the corner of 9th Avenue and Jameson Street, Bulawayo. Established c.1930 and managed by A E Johnston, the business specialised in retreading, tyre and tube repairs. References Who’s who of Southern Africa, Volume 22 (1937)

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The Palace Theatre was located on Abercorn Street, Bulawayo. The first building was opened 4 November 1897 to coincide with the opening of the railway. The hotel was rebuilt in 1931 and a new multi-storey block was added in the later 1930s. During this period it was under the management…

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The Grand Hotel (Byo.) Ltd. was constructed in 1899 in the Marshalls Building, Main Street, Bulawayo. In 1933 the hotel was extended along Main street frontage, replacing part of the original frontage. In 1953, when the Victoria Hotel opened, the hotel lost it’s pre-eminent status.

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Central News Agency Ltd was located on Fife Street, Bulawayo. The business, whose head office was located in Johannesburg, were publishers, booksellers. newsagents, stationeers, advertising agents and bookstall contractors.

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The Union Agencies was situated in the Rayan Buildings, Abercorn Street, Bulawayo. It was one of the biggest manufacturer’s agents and brokers in Southern Rhodesia during the 1930s. It represented dozens of big and “fashionable” companies such as champagne producer Heidsieck and cognac producer Martell etc. The owner was Samuel…

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The Vumba Hotel was located in the Vumba mountains. The proprietor was Oswald Trevor Baker. Baker was the Mayor of Umtali from 1929 to 1932 and ran the hotel from the 1920s to 1930s.

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The Pompeian Manufacturing Company was established in 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The company produced the Pompeian Massage Cream along with other beauty products including rouge, hair cream, beauty powder, lipstick, cold cream, talcum powder, toilet water and perfume. The company was sold to Colgate & Company in 1927.…

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Wallace & Sons were manufacturing representatives based in Bulawayo. Originally based at 4 Grand Hotel Buildings, Main Street and 10th Avenue, the business moved on 1 May 1937 to the first floor of the M T A Buildings on the corner of Abercorn Street and 6th Avenue).

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