 |
more images |
|
FA2001.138:-
|
Road book, Pratt's Road Atlas of England and Wales, road maps, scale 6 miles
to 1 inch, by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, 1905, published by
Anglo-American Oil Co, 36-38 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, London, 1915.
|
|
The atlas has a table of lighting up times, general railway map of England and
Wales, index map to road map plates, a table of symbols and diagram of heights
showing layer colouring and the heights of places, 70 road map plates -
Hampshire is mostly covered by plates 11 and 12, maps of routes out of London,
street maps of towns, road gradient diagrams using the layer colours,
explanations of a few road signs, table of speeds against time for 1 mile, and
some advertisements.
|
|
map feature:-
|
colour printed & lat and long grid & table of symbols & scale line
& sea tinted & rivers & relief & layer colouring &
settlements & roads & road distances & railways & golf
courses |
|
inscription:- |
printed -on- title page
PURVEYORS OF MOTOR SPIRIT / TO / H.M. THE KING. H.M. QUEEN ALEXANDRA. /
PRATT'S / ROAD ATLAS OF / ENGLAND AND / WALES / FOR MOTORISTS / COPYRIGHTED 1905
/ Published by / ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL CO., LTD., / 36-38 QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, /
WESTMINSTER, LONDON, S.W. / Engraved and Printed by George Philip & Son, Ltd., /
32 Fleet Street, London E.C. / REVISED EDITION, 1915.
-- red and black on white; coats of arms |
|
scale line:-
|
15 miles = 63.5 mm |
|
dimension:- |
wxh = 13x22cm |
|
scale = 1 to 380000 ? (1 to 380160 from scale line) |
|
longitude, Winchester = 1d 18.6m W (approx) |
 |
|
|
Map Group -- Pratt 1905 -- with Research Notes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| top of page |
| MN: 3.4.2004 |
