old tourist guides for the BRITISH ISLES and BRITAIN BY COACH

Two more paperbound and stapled tourist guide booklets here, both about 5" x 7". The first two show front and back covers of each, the same graphic design on both sides of "The BRITISH ISLES".

Pic 3 shows inside the front cover of "The BRITISH ISLES" with its index, photograph credits, and publisher "The Travel Association Tourist Division of The British Tourist and Holidays Board", also "Edition for 1949". It contains 80p including many photographs, and printed in a rather small font such that there's likely a good bit of actual information contained in its text. A list of other publications by The Travel Association is inside the back cover.

"TOURING BRITAIN BY COACH" is another publication of the same "The Travel Association" but their information only appears on the back cover. It, rather obviously, is designed to help tourists plan their travels by Motor Coach -- what we'd now all commonly refer to as 'the bus' -- but presumably at a time in history when traveling by bus would have been a much more desirable experience than it might generally be considered today. I cannot find a date on this one, but all the vehicles pictured within suggest a 1940's time frame. In addition to photographs and descriptions of tourist attractions and points of interest are advertisements for operators providing regular tour services and routes to those points of interest. There are 64p., pic 4 here shows a map "Principal Tourist Areas of BRITAIN showing distances from London" inside its front cover opposite the "Introduction" authored "By Raymond W. Birch, M.I.Mech.E., M.Inst.T."