Map Collection

FA2002.43:- 
Road map, Basingstoke and District Multiple Mileage Chart, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, complimentary gift from Lintott Motor Co, Reading Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, provided by Fleet Sales Services, 1-2 Pleydell Court, London, 1950s-60s.
Basingstoke district is apparently the whole of central England, London to Exeter, Isle of Wight to Manchester!
The map is an outline with main roads and towns. Each town has a two letter code, and by each town is a list of distances, code letters miles, to towns on the adjacent map sections above, left and below. The map comes from the Road Mileage Map of England and Wales by Geographia, Fleet Street, London.
inscription:-  printed -on- cover THE / MULTIPLE MILEAGE / CHART / OF / BASINGSTOKE / AND DISTRICT / With the compliments of / THE LINTOTT MOTOR CO. / F. J. Lintott / Reading Road / BASINGSTOKE / And at Andover
inscription:-  printed -on- bootom of map FLEET SALES SERVICES LTD. 1&2 PLEYDELL COURT, LONDON. E.C.4.
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 67.5x53cm
wxh, map = 38.5x47cm
scale = 1 to 700000 ? (nominal)

MN: 27.5.2002