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Motorist's RoadmapsThe great thing about collecting old road maps is that they don't take up a huge amount of space, unlike collecting old cars themselves! The early maps and atlases often feature very attractive artwork on their covers, or are designed very much in the style of the day. On this page I've scanned and put up some map and atlas covers that I've got in my own collection, the earliest being a Bacon's County Map and Guide for Yorkshire that has a pair of Victorian cyclists on the cover, right through to the 1950s and 1960s with maps from both motor manufacturers, and several oil / fuel companies. Different organisations issued their own maps - on this page are examples of map distributed by Ordnance Survey, Gulf Oil, Michelin Tyres, British Motor Corporation (BMC) and MEX Motor Spirit, to name just a few. I've also included a couple of tour guides.You can click on any of the thumbnail images below, to see a larger version. Old maps 1890s-1960s |
Other items of interest can be seen in the Motoring Collectables section, including a leaflet from 1927 describing the various maps on offer by Bartholomew's. An alternative to using maps in the olden days, was to make use of a free route planning service, as offered by the likes of the AA, RAC and Michelin. This page looks at a neat, paper-based, distance calculator from the 1950s that presents the mileages between town and cities across Britain, while its 1920s equivalent can be found here. Car manufacturers would also often give advice on worthwhile motor tours, just such a book produced by Austin in the early 1930s can be found on this page, again here at Old Classic Car. |
See too the amazing 1950s/1960s "fully automatic" (mmm) Auto-Mapic navigation device, in the gadgets section of Old Classic Car. |
External Links: www.roadmaps.org Road Map Collectors Association. www.oldmaps.free.fr Cartes Routieres Anciennes. |
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