Map Collection

FA2001.61:- 
Road map, road book with itineraries, The Halford Pocket Atlas and Route Guide, no.2, West of England and South Wales, with road maps by Geographia, 55 Fleet Street, London, published by The Halford Cycle Co, Corporation Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, about 1930s?
The booklet has a key map to the series at the front and an index map of pages in this booklet; 21 map pages cover the south west, scale about 1 to 750000, about 12 miles to 1 inch; at the back are a selection of cycling and motoring routes, and an index to places on these routes; the 'folding map at end' is missing.
Hampshire is included on map pages 17, 18, and 19, and in routes 16 Salisbury to Christchurch, 22 Southampton to Salisbury, 23 Southampton to Bournemouth, 26 Dorchester to Southampton, 115 Marlborough to Andover, 117 Andover to Warminster, 118 London to Winchester and Southampton, 119 London to Salisbury.
map feature:-  table of symbols (just showing the types of road) & scale line & county & settlements & roads
inscription:-  printed -on- cover ENTIRELY NEW EDITION / 'THE / HALFORD' / POCKET / ROAD ATLAS AND / ROUTE GUIDE / No.2 / West of England / AND / South Wales / ... / HALFORD PRICE 6d. EACH / WITH FOLDING MAP AT END / THE HALFORD CYCLE Co. Ltd. / CORPORATION ST., BIRMINGHAM -- black on blue
scale line:-  10 miles = 21.4 mm
dimension:-  wxh, book = 10x15cm
wxh, map = 85x135mm
scale = 1 to 750000 ? (1 752030 from scale line)

MN: 9.7.2001