I have made enquiries locally concerning the two queries raised in Bulletin No. 12 p. 6. and have obtained the following information which I trust will be of some use:
With regard to Mr. Dickson's Registered Airmail cover it is the practice for the Parish Postmaster to write the registration number on such envelopes, in ink or in pencil, and on arrival at the G.P.O. they are backstamped. All registered letters were entered in the records of both the Parish Post Office and the G.P.O. but since the 16th January 1956 a record is only maintained at the G.P.O.
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The electric cancelling machine installed in April 1926, to which Mr. Britnor refers, consisted of six wavy lines with the date in a circle on the left, measuring 20 x 20 mm. In 1946 another cancellor was added consisting of seven wavy lines with the circle measuring 21 x 20 mm. There are two blocks: the date block sliding into a flat slot and the wavy lines are engraved on a semi-circular block. This latter block can be fed into the machine with either the waves on top or on the bottom."
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