>> I remember those, they sent them in the post. Looked like some from an old
>> dot matrix printer, the paper had those holes down the sides?
My Dad used AA route guides in the seventies, possibly as early as the sixties.
In 68 and 69 he drove us down to Paddington from where we got the motorail train to Penzance prior to flying out to the Scillies. Might have used an AA route from the end of the M1. Remember going down the Edgware Road, a route that 12 or 13 years later I'd cycle regularly on way into work.
Certainly used them to Gatwick and on a few occasions to Dover - via the North Circular and Dartford Tunnel in latter case.
He also had two for Eastern and Western France. Spiral bound jobbies. I think, heading home, they read from back to front. Another AA supplied item was a spares kit. Hillman Hunters were not that common in France. Later, when he'd moved up to a Ford Granada, he found that was a completely different car to that the Ford Agent in Sete was used to. They managed to fettle the troublesome Lucas alternator but were used to Bosch.
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