Large Scale Easy to Read Map of Essex
Cover: red text on pale green background; 2/-. Inside front cover there is an advert for Bairstow Eves; the back cover has an advert for Dyno-Rod.
Lettered columns columns and numbered rows form a grid, with an Index on the reverse. For towns this lists info such as Population, Early Closing Day, and distances to London and neighbouring towns; Saffron Walden population stated as 9,140. Copyright GI Barnett & Son Ltd. Based on the Ordnance Survey by the permission of the Controller HM Stationery Office. Crown Copyright Reserved.
Scale correct at 5 miles = 42mm, or 3.0 miles/inch, ie 1:190,000.
Trunk roads in wide cased red, A roads in cased red, B roads in cased yellow, double black lines for Other roads and twin red lines for Proposed roads, plus a dash-dot line for county boundary and a red aircraft symbol for Airfield; Brentwood bypass shown as open (opened 1965). There are no railways shown anywhere at all - none!
Address is Graphia House, Rippleside Commercial Estate, Barking, Essex; no telephone number. From the SW population, I'd date this to c1967.