There appears to be some evidence that the font might have been designed by by Jock Kinneir, see the last page here. There's also a possible link here, scroll down to row 26.

I seem to recall a wall in one of the rooms at my art college being covered in brand use guideline posters, because one of the tutors had been involved in the design. Unfortunately I had approximately zero interest in corporate design or typography ##years ago.




OK OK c.25years

Could have lived without the downloads.

Sorry about that.

Yet another thread where we never get to see the sample we're asked to ID...

http://www.publiclettering.org.uk/StPancrasstation.php

'...the Design Research Unit

kinneir & calvert also designed signage faces for the motorways, roads, and hospitals in britain.

conor, to answer your original question: these fonts (including the BR font) are not available commercially

Do you mean this one?

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/transport/d-medium/testdrive.html?s=Manford+Thirty-sixborough&p=36

It's made in digital form by urw++.

It isn't quite the same, though. Look at the cap M and the lower case R. Helvetica is probably closer.

alex's link shows a version sold by urw++ of transport,kinnear's font for the british road system. although it shares some similaries with continental sans of the 50s, it does it's own thing (check the l,t,R etc); it's not just a redrawing of Akzidenz Grotesk or Helvetica. so its not a sub for BR (not sure if that's what you meant).

if you want something that's close to the BR font, start with Akzidenz Grotesk or Helvetica.

thanks for that

C

sample?