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Description: | This poster was commissioned by London Transport in 1964. It advertises the Museum of British Transport in Clapham. The illustrations were by William Fenton, a railway enthusiast who had produced much of the printed material for the Underground centenary celebrations the previous year. The lettering was by the cartographer and draughtsman Benjamin Getzel Lewis.
The poster appeared as an exhibit in itself. It shows a Tilling horse bus, a general B.-type bus, a double-deck tramcar, and one of the original No 23 Metropolitan Railway locomotives. The background is illustrated with a collection of transport ephemera. This includes a panel from Shillibeer's original omnibus of 1929, the first Metropolitan Railway timetables of 1863, locomotive builders' plates, Underground and bus tickets, bus and tram stop signs and bus bonnet numbers. On the right there is an impression of Barnett Freeman's poster 'Circus', which was produced in 1936. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Art and Design | Temporal: | 1964 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Publisher : London Transport | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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