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All designs © Transport for London.
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← This text below the bullseye says A new design for an old map. We should welcome your comments. Please write to PUBLICITY MANAGER 55, BROADWAY, WESTMINSTER, S.W.1 The reverse has a list of PLACES OF INTEREST &c. on one panel, and THEATRES on the other. This particular mint-condition example sold on ebay for £236.99 in June 2008. |
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 (January 1933) (750M - 1-33) |
← This variation is in the rarer paper version, as most were printed on card. Also, there the paper one was issued in two sizes; the card having only one. The map has LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD, 55, BROADWAY, SW1 printed on the front in blue, in readiness for the merger into the newly formed London Transport in July 1933. |
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 (February 1933) 376 - 20,000 - 17-2-33 |
← This edition also exists without the text SOUTHGATE & ENFIELD WEST OPEN 13th MARCH 1933 on the front cover. This version includes details of Journey Times and Fares from Southgate and Enfield West stations on the rear. |
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(April 1933) 630 - 20M-4-33. |
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|  (July 1933) (None) |
This was the only Underground map issued to bear the initials of the London Passenger Transport Board. | |
 (September 1933) 33-2791 |
As well as the addition of the enormous notation
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 (December 1933) 33-3636. |
The PLACES OF INTEREST heading had been reduced to a single line by the omission of the ampersand. And once again the District line shifted at Ealing Braodway. This particular mint-condition example sold on ebay for £236.99 in June 2008. (Those 75-year-old creases prevent it from opening completely without damage.) → |
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 (March 1934) 34-1945. 350 M |
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|  1934, No.2 (None) |
In this edition the Bakerloo and Central lines changed from orange and red to red and brown respectively, the East London line was absorbed into the Metropolitan (not reassuming its own identity until 1970), the Piccadilly line extended from Rayners Lane to Uxbridge, and the north curve removed from Watford Junction. There were at least two printings of this map, with two distinct variations: with and without additional space below the PLACES OF INTEREST title on the back panel:  |
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 1935, No.1 (None) |
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 1935, No.2 (None) |
In 1935 the reverse of the map was changed. The indexes of PLACES OF INTEREST and THEATRES was replaced with an enlargement of INTERCHANGE STATIONS [in the] CENTRAL AREA. However, some clarity was lost when the colour of the Metropolitan line was changed from purple to deep red. | 
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 1936, No.1 (None) |
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 1936, No.2 (None) |
Mercifully, the Bank–Monument link was shrunk on this edition of the map. It did so again on the 1937 No. 2 map. | ||
 1937, No.1 (None) |
This map also exists with two different overprints on the front cover: Optical Trades Exhibition andNewbold’s …
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 1937, No.2 (None) |
For some incomprehensible reason, the colour of the Metropolitan line was changed to green, the same as the District line. Although this had the effect of grouping all the sub-surface routes together, that distinction is only relevant to the enthusiast. This confusing state of affairs was to remain for the following ten years. | 
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 1938, No.1 (None) |
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