Quaker Oats delivery truck and trailer, London, c1935
Scanned from a children's publicity booklet issued by Quaker Oats in the 1930s - The Journey of a Rolled Oat, that describes the trip of a cartoon oat from Canada to the inevitability of a porridge pot - this image of a Quaker Oat delivery truck and trailer in Central London. The load is crossing London County Council conduit tram track and the refuge island, alongside a rather fine "keep to the left" sign, also sports a London Transport 'to station' direction sign - this would have been in yellow/primrose enamel and here it directs people, I think, to Blackfriars station. Quite where the street is I'm currently uncertain - London, famously, wouldn't have tram tracks through its centre and so the closest to the north tracks would have got would have been Farringdon Road at Smithfield but I may be mistaken. That said, the trams swung around adjacent to Blackfriars having come over the bridge and then along the Embankment. I'll have to do some more thinking.
Quaker Oats delivery truck and trailer, London, c1935
Scanned from a children's publicity booklet issued by Quaker Oats in the 1930s - The Journey of a Rolled Oat, that describes the trip of a cartoon oat from Canada to the inevitability of a porridge pot - this image of a Quaker Oat delivery truck and trailer in Central London. The load is crossing London County Council conduit tram track and the refuge island, alongside a rather fine "keep to the left" sign, also sports a London Transport 'to station' direction sign - this would have been in yellow/primrose enamel and here it directs people, I think, to Blackfriars station. Quite where the street is I'm currently uncertain - London, famously, wouldn't have tram tracks through its centre and so the closest to the north tracks would have got would have been Farringdon Road at Smithfield but I may be mistaken. That said, the trams swung around adjacent to Blackfriars having come over the bridge and then along the Embankment. I'll have to do some more thinking.