Evolution of London 1800 - 1936 : posters issued by London Transport : 1936 : designed by Zéró (Hans Schleger) : endpapers to LPTB Third Annual Report : 1936 914 pre-War London and 1936 London Today text

            The third annual report and accounts of the London Passenger Transport Board, to the year ending 30 June 1936, has the usual information as to the Board's activities and trading. It contains, as various of the Annual Reports did, photographs of the year's activities as well as maps of the Board's services such as Underground, tram and trolleybus, motor bus and coach services; however in this year it also includes colour endpapers that reproduce the series of four posters "The evolution of London 1800 - 1936" by Zéró, Hans Schleger. At the time Schleger, the German-Polish designer who had worked in his native Germany as well as the US, had been in the UK since 1932 and had been commissioned by London Transport for work that included the re-design of the Board's bus stop flags.

The posters, early examples of the 'pair posters' that LT would much use in the 1950s, take a map of the Metropolis in 1800, 1850, 1914 and 1936 showing the growth of the city, and corresponding snapshots of the various forms of public transport at those dates and their development. The maps show the boundary of the 1933 London Passenger Transport Board's area within which they had powers regarding many forms of road passenger transport.

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