
LONDON UNDERGROUND GARBUTT (PAUL E.) London Transport... Underground, Waterlow & Sons, [c.1975]
£600 - £800
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LONDON UNDERGROUND
Footnotes
Mammoth-format version of Paul Garbutt's Tube map, designed for mounting on a station platform. Garbutt had "responded to criticism of [Harold Hutchison's] unpopular, angular style of Underground map by drawing a new version, restoring the map's elegant curves, to relieve intellectual boredom at home during the Christmas break in 1962. He can therefore be said to be one of the few people who have altered the course of the Thames - and the Circle Line" (London Transport Museum web site). His basic configuration has proved extremely durable, featuring a "thermos flask" shaped Circle Line, horizontal Central Line and vertical Northern Line. In this iteration, the Piccadilly Line extension to Heathrow is shown as under construction.