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Old 14th Jan 2019, 08:43
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For those who have been interested by the CLS (Czechoslovakia) 1938 map-style timetable page, and indeed many other "proper" paper timetables from long past, your source, which a number of us here are actually contributors to, is

Airline Timetable Images - List of Complete Timetables

Work through to the airline lists, click on the carrier to see all the cover pages, or click on the individual dates to see all the pages, one page at a time. The particular one featured above is

http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...8/cls38-05.jpg

The map-style timetables, unique to Central Europe, were generally produced by the pre-war German independent publisher of the "Luftreisekursbuch", who used the basic artwork for various carriers and countries, overprinted by the red detail you can see here. The Lufthansa timetable of the era was the principal foundation for this, several other carriers used it as well. The printing format is hand written (look closely) on copper plates by engravers, and the red overstamp put on top where required.

The operating carriers are not shown but the flight numbers are in blocks for each airline, there was some all-Europe co-ordination for this, and with a bit of knowledge of the pre-war airline scene can be worked out. A number of the routes were pool arrangements between airlines of different countries, with the flights run by different national carriers on different days.

The last carrier to use this style appears to have been Finnair, their 1974 timetable gets the whole world into this format. Once you get the hang of them, quite interesting.

http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...y74/ay74-4.jpg

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