5 Dollars Barclay's Bank

Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was the corporate vehicle through which Barclays absorbed a cluster of colonial banks in 1925, and its currency-issuing role in various territories meant Bradbury, Wilkinson was printing essentially private banknotes with quasi-official circulation status. The 1940–41 dating places this squarely in the period when sterling-area territories faced acute supply pressures — shipping disruptions affected note deliveries, and some issues from this window were printed in smaller batches than pre-war runs.

Pick S111 falls in the "S" prefix, catalogued as a private or semi-official issue rather than a central bank emission.