Express Special Delivery Motorcycle

Express Special Delivery Motorcycle

Year
1944
Face Value
40
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
-
Themes
Postal

Catalogs References

Michel
EG 278
Yvert & Tellier
EG E4
Stanley Gibbons
EG E290

Technical Details

Colors
Red Brown
Size
43 x 26 mm
Perforation
13 x 13½
Printing
Offset lithography
Printers
Survey Department, Cairo
This express post (Expres) stamp focuses on the logistical modernization, technological advancement, and efficiency of Egypt's civil communication networks during the mid-20th century. The illustration features a uniformed postal worker wearing a traditional fez (tarboosh), operating an early motorized postal delivery motorcycle across a rural landscape dotted with palm trees. The subject carries a strong message of speed, organizational efficiency, and structural transition, highlighting how modern mechanical transport was integrated to accelerate domestic logistics and administrative services.