T Norbury & Co.

Information and image from Robert Chilton.

The company supplied destination blinds.

Their blinds used a font that was more or less the 'standard' destination blind font. The main differences on their blinds was the level of compression of the letters to enable the wording to fit the width. There are much narrower letters for longer names, and also the small letters for names on two lines, but otherwise they are pretty consistently designed.

Some lines are spaced out more to fill the whole width of some blinds, while sometimes not, and they are more centred instead — which could either have been different specifications being supplied, or just the preference of the person who made the blind template at the time.

The example shown is thought to be printed by T. Norbury & Co. and is from a Cricklewood allocated DMU.

The other main destination blind suppliers were E.W. Matthews and Kelbus.