Bartholomew/AA 1948

692mm h x 779mm w (Cover: 192mm h x 96mm w)

AA 1948, Throughway map of the Home Counties AA 1948, Throughway map of the Home Counties cover

Duplex Throughway Maps, London and of the Home Counties

The AA is now using Bartholomew's series of Quarter-inch maps, but of a larger print area than Bartholomew's were publishing for themselves.

There is thus a very large area covered, from the Isle of Wight in the south-west to beyond Ipswich in the north-east. A larger scale map of London covers the reverse side.

More details on Motoring maps are on the Publisher's page.

Scale correct at 21 miles = 132mm, or 4.0 miles/inch, ie 1:255,000.

Copyright John Bartholomew & Son Ltd, Edinburgh.

Map has code A.1948, ie printed first half of 1948. Even so, the map shows a planned road that will be the M1 north of Watford (opened 1959), and names as "Tunnel under construction" the Dartford Tunnel (opened to traffic 1963, but built 1959/60).

© Peter Walker 2014