 | MR BECK`S UNDERGROUND MAPA History
1st Edition - 1994, Reprinted 1998
by Ken Garland
ISBN 978-1-854141-68-2
Book 28.5cm x 25cm, Hardback, Casebound 80 Pages Over 50 Mainly Colour Illustrations
Publisher: Capital Transport Publishing
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| | The first few years of the 1930s were not good ones for the Underground. Speaking at the annual general meeting in February 1932 the Chairman, Lord Ashfield, was moved to say, in the face of economic stagnation: 'There seems no way open to us to stimulate the movement of traffic just at present. Even our publicity service seems temporarily ineffective as a means of building it up'. It became worse still financially as 1932 proceeded. All departments had to contribute by making economies and reducing salaries for the Directors and all staff. Frank Pick, the Underground's autocratic managing director, had previously dismissed in 1931 a suggestion emanating from a junior draughtsman, Harry Beck, for a different approach to mapping its railways using an easy-to-follow diagrammatic method based on straight lines. Influenced perhaps by the circumstances of 1932, he was persuaded to give it a try. It was liked by the public, though non-one has ever attempted to measure its commercial value to the Underground. The map's successors are still with Londoners today and its principles have been used in many other cities and countries. Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Forward
- Chapter 1 – A Timely Image
- Chapter 2 – The Birth of the Diagram
- Chapter 3 – The System Grows, The Diagram Changes
- Chapter 4 – Refinement, Experiment and Consistency
- Chapter 5 – Rejection
- Chapter 6 – The Importance of the Diagram
- Appendices
Continent: Europe
Country: UK
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