North west Europe 1:250,000. Sheet no. 2, Lille-Ghent Geographical Section, General Staff No. 4042 ; revised at O.S. 1938 ; re-revised & photolithographed by O.S. 1943.

Title:
North west Europe 1:250,000. Sheet no. 2, Lille-Ghent Geographical Section, General Staff No. 4042 ; revised at O.S. 1938 ; re-revised & photolithographed by O.S. 1943.
Description:
Relief shown by contours, gradient tints, shading, and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints. | Three classes of railways and five classes of roads are shown. | Covers area north from Flushing (Vlissingen),Netherlands to Valanciennes, France to the south, and west from Quesques, France to Brussels to the east. Lille roughly just below center of sheet. Ghent roughly at center right portion of sheet. | Sheet 2, Lille-Ghent from set covering most of the Low Countries and northeastern France. Set includes various issues of some sheets, some reissued by U.S. Army Map Service. Some sheets have series designation A.M.S. M503 (G.S.G.S. 4042). | Military grid. | "British Modified Grid. Projection, Cassini. Spheroid, Airy. ... Nord de Guerre Zone Grid. Projection, Lambert Conical Orthomorphic. Spheroid, DuPlessis (reconstituted)." | "Heights in metres." | "Contour interval 50 metres." | Cataloging agency's copy overprinted with 1 dashed blue diagonal line extending south northeast from roughly E 2°48ʹ N 50°20ʹ to E3°0ʹ N 51°27ʹ with designation: 8°30ʹ W (June 1943). IXA | Cataloging agency's copy overprinted with 1 solid blue diagonal line extending south northeast from roughly E 3°43ʹ N 50°20ʹ to E 3°55ʹ N 51°27ʹ with designation: 8° W (June 1943). IXA | Includes Conversion table, convergence diagram, Index of grid letters and index to adjoining sheets, Reliability diagram, and To give a grid reference on this sheet. | "50,000 12 43 E."
Creator/Contributor:
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section, cartographer, publisher. (cartographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1943
Owning Repository:
Perry-Castañeda Library Maps, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin
Source Collection Name:
Field Maps of Colonel Roland T. Fenton
Source Collection PID:
utlmaps:3084389a-1336-420d-94c1-578d2961543f
Type:
maps, cartographic, Topographic maps, and Aeronautical charts
Extent:
50 x 70 cm, on sheet 65 x 89 cm.
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language:
English and French
Publisher:
[London] : Published by the War Office, 1943./[London] : Photolithographed by O.S., 1943.
Topic:
Transportation -- Euope, Northern -- Maps. and
Cartographic Information:
E 1°55ʹ00ʺ--E 4°24ʹ00ʺ N 51°27ʹ00ʺ--N 50°20ʹ00ʺ and 1:250,000
UTL DAMS PID:
utlmaps:47527a82-0d7f-471b-8294-d4e30dd5fd6f
Related Resource - Host:
PCL Map Collection (title)
Thumbnail URI:
https://curio.lib.utexas.edu/assets/DAMS/utlmaps/utlmaps_47527a82-0d7f-471b-8294-d4e30dd5fd6f/TN/utlmaps_47527a82-0d7f-471b-8294-d4e30dd5fd6f.jpg
IIIF Manifest:
https://curio.lib.utexas.edu/assets/DAMS/utlmaps/utlmaps_47527a82-0d7f-471b-8294-d4e30dd5fd6f/manifests/2/utlmaps_47527a82-0d7f-471b-8294-d4e30dd5fd6f.json
Date Added:
2021-06-30

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