1941 London Underground Pocket Map No 2 - HC Beck
Underground Lines - Number 2 1941.
Designed by Harry Charles (HC) Beck. Printed Johnson Riddle & Co Ltd for London Transport. 22.7cm x 15.3cm. Print Code 741.2780G.300M. Card Bi-fold map. Condition: Very good. Lightly used. Faint stain bottom left at the fold and some marks on the verso.
It would have a been a great relief to HC Beck to have regained control of the Underground map design after a surprise move by London Transport, between the years 1938-1940, to hand responsibility for the design to Hans Schleger, a highly accomplished artist and poster designer.
During this period, Beck continued to work on the larger poster formats and in 1939, he was asked by The Board to incorporate 3 new devices onto the map. These being 1) pairs and triplets of interlinking rings for interchange stations 2) The duplication of station names where two or three lines are served by the same station 3) a change in the angle of diagonal lines from 45 to 60 degrees. This design was first printed as a Quad Royal poster from late 1939 with it replacing Hans Schlegers pocket map design in 1941. Whilst Beck executed these requests dutifully, he didn’t like the changes and none of them lasted beyond 1945.
In a bizarre move of branding self-sabotage, London Transport removed all branding from the map in 1938. This edition sees the welcome return of the roundel at the bottom of the map, though it wouldn’t appear back on the cover until 1946.
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Underground Lines - Number 2 1941.
Designed by Harry Charles (HC) Beck. Printed Johnson Riddle & Co Ltd for London Transport. 22.7cm x 15.3cm. Print Code 741.2780G.300M. Card Bi-fold map. Condition: Very good. Lightly used. Faint stain bottom left at the fold and some marks on the verso.
It would have a been a great relief to HC Beck to have regained control of the Underground map design after a surprise move by London Transport, between the years 1938-1940, to hand responsibility for the design to Hans Schleger, a highly accomplished artist and poster designer.
During this period, Beck continued to work on the larger poster formats and in 1939, he was asked by The Board to incorporate 3 new devices onto the map. These being 1) pairs and triplets of interlinking rings for interchange stations 2) The duplication of station names where two or three lines are served by the same station 3) a change in the angle of diagonal lines from 45 to 60 degrees. This design was first printed as a Quad Royal poster from late 1939 with it replacing Hans Schlegers pocket map design in 1941. Whilst Beck executed these requests dutifully, he didn’t like the changes and none of them lasted beyond 1945.
In a bizarre move of branding self-sabotage, London Transport removed all branding from the map in 1938. This edition sees the welcome return of the roundel at the bottom of the map, though it wouldn’t appear back on the cover until 1946.
FREE UK DELIVERY. Non-UK Delivery available, please request a quotation
Underground Lines - Number 2 1941.
Designed by Harry Charles (HC) Beck. Printed Johnson Riddle & Co Ltd for London Transport. 22.7cm x 15.3cm. Print Code 741.2780G.300M. Card Bi-fold map. Condition: Very good. Lightly used. Faint stain bottom left at the fold and some marks on the verso.
It would have a been a great relief to HC Beck to have regained control of the Underground map design after a surprise move by London Transport, between the years 1938-1940, to hand responsibility for the design to Hans Schleger, a highly accomplished artist and poster designer.
During this period, Beck continued to work on the larger poster formats and in 1939, he was asked by The Board to incorporate 3 new devices onto the map. These being 1) pairs and triplets of interlinking rings for interchange stations 2) The duplication of station names where two or three lines are served by the same station 3) a change in the angle of diagonal lines from 45 to 60 degrees. This design was first printed as a Quad Royal poster from late 1939 with it replacing Hans Schlegers pocket map design in 1941. Whilst Beck executed these requests dutifully, he didn’t like the changes and none of them lasted beyond 1945.
In a bizarre move of branding self-sabotage, London Transport removed all branding from the map in 1938. This edition sees the welcome return of the roundel at the bottom of the map, though it wouldn’t appear back on the cover until 1946.
FREE UK DELIVERY. Non-UK Delivery available, please request a quotation