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Legibility test by Road Research Laboratory at RAF Benson airfield

Legibility test by Road Research Laboratory at RAF Benson airfield

People's Graphic Design Archive

№ 27,003

"How road sign legibility used to be tested by men sitting in a field. Legibility at speed was the key aim. A wonderful photograph from the archive shows flat-capped men from the Road Research Laboratory sitting in an airfield as a car approaches, with a road sign for Oldham and Smethwick strapped…

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