AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN INDIA. Handbook. 1st Edition. [Colophon]: Lahore: printed at the "Civil and military Gazette", by G. E. Tilt, for the association. 1934.
8vo. Original cloth, lettered in gilt and black; pp. [xvi, title-page and illustrated advertisements], [2, sectional title on stiff yellow papers], 303, ix, [3], additional sectional titles and leaves of illustrated advertisement interspersed, numerous folding maps to throw clear; binding with wear to extremities and restorations to spine, internally very clean, provenance: printed On his Majesty's Service label and name J. B. Enyon in ink on verso of front fly-leaf, pencil notes on final blank.
Very rare sole edition of this all-encompassing motoring guidebook for Northern India, with information on distances, road quality, garages, hotels, other infrastructure and hints for sight-seeing. The fist section of the volume describes the automobile association, which was founded in 1927, its organizational structure, statutes, eminent members, rules and regulations. This is followed by a list of towns, their elevation and population, together with guest houses and hotels and their prices, garages, descriptions of hill roads, all with town plans. Somewhat tautological, the next section lists more hotels, dak bungalows (government-run guest houses), petrol stations and garages registered by the Association, and hospitals. This is followed by a historical section and practical hints for morists, including the relevant laws.
LibraryHub locates a single copy, in the British Library (ascribing the authorship to one H. J. Martin); no copy in WorldCat.
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