All Scotland SMT tours / Oxley. – Antique Wall Art
![All Scotland SMT tours / Oxley., [193-] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e7/e71da27826f1-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: All Scotland SMT tours / Oxley., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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All Scotland SMT tours / Oxley.
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Few things capture interwar British travel like this poster, which invites viewers to see the whole of Scotland on tours run by the Scottish Motor Traction company, or SMT. The bus operator was a major road carrier in Scotland, and in the 1930s motor coaches were opening up glens, coasts and islands that were hard to reach by rail. The poster's bold color and simple design reflect the commercial style of the period, when railways, bus companies and steamship lines competed for holidaymakers with eye-catching art. Its artist, Oxley, is recorded only by surname, but the piece shows how road travel was being sold as an adventure.
| Created / published | [193-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Travel posters British 1930-1940.Prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: Gt.Br. E4. 193-. |
| Subjects | Tourism--Scotland--1930-1940. Buses--Scotland--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,149 × 1,449 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216421 |
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