📖 Item Description
Original Barton Transport Ltd Emergency Service No.12 timetable for the Nottingham – Leicester route, dated March 1944.
• Barton Transport Limited, Beeston, Notts
• Emergency Service No. 12
• Nottingham – Leicester route
• Dated March 1944
• WWII wartime issue
• Double-sided timetable and fare tables
• Period “Civility and Service” bus illustration
Issued during wartime emergency service conditions, this is a genuine provincial Midlands bus timetable from the Second World War period.
Scarce original wartime transport ephemera.
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🧭 Condition
• Original 1944 printed sheet
• Age-related toning
• Light handling wear, staple holes near top see photos
• No major tears observed
• Clean and fully legible
• Stored in protective sleeve
An honest wartime survivor in good readable condition.
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✨ Features
• WWII transport paper
• Provincial bus operator timetable
• Emergency service designation
• Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire route history
• Collectable Midlands transport ephemera
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