Another from the Catacombs: the Guinness transport system.

[jhb171achill]

The attached may be of interest, from another of the (extremely) occasional posts of stuff in the “catacombs” in the study.....

I well recall the ”Lady Patricia”, the ”Lady Gwendoline”, the ”Grania” and the “Miranda Guinness”, the latter not yet built when this booklet was produced about 1959/60.

[Mayner]

Interesting the booklets are similar in style and format to the CIE Working Timetables. I wonder whether there was a connection?

[jhb171achill]

19 minutes ago, Mayner said:

Interesting the booklets are similar in style and format to the CIE Working Timetables. I wonder whether there was a connection?

I had another look at it. It was printed by their own printing works - where they made their bottle labels. The print font used was common enough back then; before the days of the all-encompassing "arial" which seems to have pervaded just about everything, worldwide, from the late 1960s. It actually fell out of a book that I was consulting for something else. I have hundreds of books, and even more railway documents and timetables, and it's amazing what pops out of them now and again - I found an original 1947 GNR "Enterprise" brochure last week! I had forgotten I had it, as I sold three or four that I DID know I had, some years ago....!

It's coincidental in this case.