"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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The AA used to produce a set of paper maps which were mostly black and
white but had red lines indicating the best driving route from the city
named on the front to every major town in Britain. Does anyone know what
they were called, because I can't find anything abut them on the web. I'd
like to know for how many different cities were these maps produced.

I still have a 1950 AA roadbook (with a few pages missing) and at the front
is a schematic of UK roads with red numbers on them indicating which driving
route uses that road

then there is a list of driving routes from various As to Bs

There is 830 of them

and as per a PP I remember when we were going on holiday my dad used to go
to the AA office (in Croydon) and have them print out a specific itinerary
for our destination - pity that we never kept any of them.

No idea how they managed this as I never went with him.

tim