Garbutt’s 1970 Quad Royal Station Map British Empire Exhibition conjugate wormhole at centrefold

conjugate wormhole at centrefold

enquiry offices and similar venues

many are printed in colours

and is possibly the first issue showing the whole operating area of the recently formed London Passenger Transport Board

the latter linked speculatively to New Guinea

Garbutt’s 1970 Quad Royal Station Map British Empire Exhibition conjugate wormhole at centrefoldGarbutt believed he had rescued the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ham fisted parody of Becks designs. His basic configuration proved extremely durable, featuring a thermos flask shaped Circle Line, horizontal Central Line and vertical Northern Line, but with effective use of diagonals which helped return the map closer to geographical reality than Becks later rectilinear designs. Roberts suggests that it works