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Original vintage travel brochure in english language:
"ROYAL MAIL AND PACIFIC LINES - TOURS ROUND SOUTH AMERICA"
Booklet contains details of trips along with prices.
Printed approx. around 1930s.
Condition report: booklet shows some tears and creasing, also may shows some yellowing and stains, complete with all pages
Total measurements: approx. 71x48cm, when folded approx. 24x18cm
Historical context: the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a british shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen.
The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique or Everywhere By Sea.
After a troubled start, it became the largest shipping group in the world in 1927 when it took over the White Star Line.
The company was liquidated and its assets taken over by the newly formed Royal Mail Lines in 1932 after financial trouble and scandal.
The company ran into financial trouble, and the UK government investigated its affairs in 1930, resulting in the Royal Mail Case.
In 1931 Lord Kylsant was jailed for 12 months for misrepresenting the state of the company to shareholders.
So much of britain's shipping industry was involved in RMSPC that arrangements were made to guarantee the continuation of ship operations after it was liquidated.
Royal Mail Lines Ltd (RML) was created in 1932 and took over the ships of RMSPC and other companies of the former group.
The new company's operations were concentrated on the west coast of South America, the West Indies and Caribbean, and the Pacific coast of North America; the Southampton – Lisbon – Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina route was operated from 1850 to 1980.
RML was also a leading cruise ship operator.
RMS's largest ship was the 25,895 GRT turbine steamship RMS Andes.
She was designed as an ocean liner but when launched in 1939 was immediately fitted out as a troopship.
She finally entered civilian liner service in 1948, was converted to full-time cruising in 1960 and was scrapped in 1971 (Wiki).
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