Pratts High Test Plan of the Midlands 1932 - Essex, Oxford, Birmingham - Old Vintage Motoring Car Map - Esso, Standard Oil tumc_derry_or_londonderry or large framed maps

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And there's no Victoria Line or Jubilee Line yet - they opened in the 60s and 70s respectively

Windsor in the west

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Pratts High Test Plan of the Midlands 1932 - Essex, Oxford, Birmingham - Old Vintage Motoring Car Map - Esso, Standard Oil tumc_derry_or_londonderry or large framed mapsThis rather fascinating pictorial map of the Midlands and Eastern Counties (i. e. Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk) was created by A. E. Taylor and published in 1931 by Pratts Oil which was known as Standard Oil in the US and only a few months later as Esso in the UK. Taylor was commissioned to create a series of maps of the United Kingdom and Ireland to encourage people to drive around the country in their new fangled motor carriages (aka cars) which, of