Build your own Sat Nav 1962 style

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

THIS IS REAL.

 

It comes from the November 1962 edition of Practical Motorist (I found some old car magazines at the tip a while back). Question is...if you need to write in the directions then surely it easier to write them on a note pad anyway?

 

Anyhow...it's raining...you could be bored...you been wondering what to do with that old tobacco tin?

 

[Skizzer]

That's basically the same thing Denis Jenkinson famously built to navigate the Mille Miglia with Stirling Moss in 1955:

 

http://www.stirlingmoss.com/node/366

 

They won, of course. I see from Sir Stirling's website that you can buy a replica, complete with course notes.

[Negative Creep]

Or even earlier, c.1930

 

 

 

 

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/10/satnav-c-1930/

[Father Ted]

That are ace.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

...still prefer the idea of one made out of a baccy tin.