1964 London Underground Station Map - Quad Royal (Paul Garbutt)
London Underground Station Map - 1964
Designed by Paul Garbutt, based on the original diagrammatic principles of HC Beck. Printed by Waterlow & Sons for London Transport. Quad Royal size 127cm x 101cm. Print Code 1264/8375Z/7500. Colour lithograph on paper. Condition: Superb lightly handled example.
This is one of the first issues of Paul Garbutt’s Quad Royal station map. Garbutt’s enduring design, with its smooth curves, horizontal Central Line and a distinctive ‘Thermos Flask’ Circle line, is widely considered a vast improvement on Harold Hutchinson’s design of 1960-1963. This map shows the first branch of the Victoria Line as under construction between Walthamstow and Victoria which opened in 1968.
The relationship between Harry Beck (creator of the Underground diagram in 1933) and London Transport was a tense and, at times, acrimonious one. For nearly 30 years, Harry Beck had managed to retain the responsibility for all revisions and edits of the diagram until Harold Hutchinson (Publicity Officer of London Transport) decided to redraw the Underground Map and credit himself as designer.
Beck was dismayed by Hutchinson’s poor design and the manner in which he was being treated. Despite dozens of letters and submitting three hand-drawn design proposals, London Transport never engaged his services again.
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London Underground Station Map - 1964
Designed by Paul Garbutt, based on the original diagrammatic principles of HC Beck. Printed by Waterlow & Sons for London Transport. Quad Royal size 127cm x 101cm. Print Code 1264/8375Z/7500. Colour lithograph on paper. Condition: Superb lightly handled example.
This is one of the first issues of Paul Garbutt’s Quad Royal station map. Garbutt’s enduring design, with its smooth curves, horizontal Central Line and a distinctive ‘Thermos Flask’ Circle line, is widely considered a vast improvement on Harold Hutchinson’s design of 1960-1963. This map shows the first branch of the Victoria Line as under construction between Walthamstow and Victoria which opened in 1968.
The relationship between Harry Beck (creator of the Underground diagram in 1933) and London Transport was a tense and, at times, acrimonious one. For nearly 30 years, Harry Beck had managed to retain the responsibility for all revisions and edits of the diagram until Harold Hutchinson (Publicity Officer of London Transport) decided to redraw the Underground Map and credit himself as designer.
Beck was dismayed by Hutchinson’s poor design and the manner in which he was being treated. Despite dozens of letters and submitting three hand-drawn design proposals, London Transport never engaged his services again.
FREE UK DELIVERY. Non-UK Delivery available, please request a quotation
London Underground Station Map - 1964
Designed by Paul Garbutt, based on the original diagrammatic principles of HC Beck. Printed by Waterlow & Sons for London Transport. Quad Royal size 127cm x 101cm. Print Code 1264/8375Z/7500. Colour lithograph on paper. Condition: Superb lightly handled example.
This is one of the first issues of Paul Garbutt’s Quad Royal station map. Garbutt’s enduring design, with its smooth curves, horizontal Central Line and a distinctive ‘Thermos Flask’ Circle line, is widely considered a vast improvement on Harold Hutchinson’s design of 1960-1963. This map shows the first branch of the Victoria Line as under construction between Walthamstow and Victoria which opened in 1968.
The relationship between Harry Beck (creator of the Underground diagram in 1933) and London Transport was a tense and, at times, acrimonious one. For nearly 30 years, Harry Beck had managed to retain the responsibility for all revisions and edits of the diagram until Harold Hutchinson (Publicity Officer of London Transport) decided to redraw the Underground Map and credit himself as designer.
Beck was dismayed by Hutchinson’s poor design and the manner in which he was being treated. Despite dozens of letters and submitting three hand-drawn design proposals, London Transport never engaged his services again.
FREE UK DELIVERY. Non-UK Delivery available, please request a quotation