Early motorways - 1960
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It's interesting to compare and contrast against the similar aged OS maps available on SABRE Maps such as Quarter Inch, Ten Mile/Route Planning and One Inchjon81 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 18:08 Hi, have made some scans of a 1960 Bartholomew atlas, particularly of early motorways, such as the M10, M45, M50 and the original M62. The atlas also highlights "primary trunk roads" (A1-A9), but a later edition (1972) marks highlighted routes as dual carriageways. Interestingly, the A6 is not highlighted through Preston, just a misprint? Also, it has several dotted motorway routes including the M2, M4, M5, M6 and the A1(M).
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Bartholomew highlighted A1-9 probably because of a perception they were the most important roads.
My grandparents had this edition of the atlas. It was lost way back.
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anyways they are still out there making maps and in rude health. The Collins road atlases have links back to Bartholomew
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/busine ... lomew.html
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Including the famous examples from 1922 where they used the draft road list to get a jump on everyone else only to get completely caught out in places.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 22:02 And they didn't always get the numbers right, or show them consistently.
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As noted above, Barts changed the mapping later to show relevant dual carriageway sections on all A roads, while showing the single carriageway sections on the A1-A9 routes as a simple red line. The cartography from the 1960's was used, with a few changes (motorways were coloured blue and newer more modern typefaces used for the larger cities and towns) until around 1985. I can remember that Barts introduced completely new mapping in 1986 with the Motorists Road Atlas of Britain, which showed B roads in green.Gav wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2019 08:42 Barts was private and could not compete with the ordnance survey that had financial backing of the government. they made good maps in their time and had a few firsts, and some claims to fame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Bartholomew
anyways they are still out there making maps and in rude health. The Collins road atlases have links back to Bartholomew
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/busine ... lomew.html
The road atlases which Barts published for Hamlyn in the 1970's and early 1980's were excellent, as they included detailed motorway strip maps, as did the Motorway Atlas of Britain, which it published in association with Autocar.