Item #113940 Geo. R. Broadbent's Standard and Official Motor Guide. Melbourne to Sydney (and Back) via The Princes Highway. With Plans of Route and Detailed Description of Road; also Intermediate and Aggregate Mileage; Hotels, Garages, etc. Tourism, George Robert BROADBENT.

[Tourism]. BROADBENT, George Robert

Geo. R. Broadbent's Standard and Official Motor Guide. Melbourne to Sydney (and Back) via The Princes Highway. With Plans of Route and Detailed Description of Road; also Intermediate and Aggregate Mileage; Hotels, Garages, etc

Melbourne, Geo. R. Broadbent, 'Seventh Edition', [circa 1932].

Oblong octavo, 116 pages with numerous maps and advertisements plus 4 perforated booking forms ('Application for Reservation of Rooms').

Stapled colour pictorial card covers a little worn, marked and creased; edges slightly thumbed, with a couple of tiny tears; partially erased ownership signature to the front cover; a very good copy.

Bound 'tête-bêche', with the second half of the book (inverted) giving details of the return journey, and with the separate title: 'Geo. R. Broadbent's Standard and Official Motor Guide. Sydney to Melbourne (and Back) ...'. 'Official Guide of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and Victorian [and NSW] Government Tourist Bureau'. Loosely inserted is a duplicated circular on RACV letterhead (dated 5 January 1933) providing a list of Road Service Stations, their locations and telephone numbers.