"Valeting your car!" - leaflet by Nobel Chemical Finishes Ltd, c1925
A period item - a leaflet for Belco car polish - and more interesting than at first glance. Nobel Chemical Finishes were part of the Nobel Explosives factories - the leaflet gives the address as Stowmarket (home to one of the chemical explosives works) and Slough. The latter is of interest in taht as Nobels became part of ICI - this was to be the Dulux Paint Works. The polishes promoted in this leaflet were part of the move to the new 'synthetic' paints introduced in the post-WW1 period, based on explosives chemistry.
"Valeting your car!" - leaflet by Nobel Chemical Finishes Ltd, c1925
A period item - a leaflet for Belco car polish - and more interesting than at first glance. Nobel Chemical Finishes were part of the Nobel Explosives factories - the leaflet gives the address as Stowmarket (home to one of the chemical explosives works) and Slough. The latter is of interest in taht as Nobels became part of ICI - this was to be the Dulux Paint Works. The polishes promoted in this leaflet were part of the move to the new 'synthetic' paints introduced in the post-WW1 period, based on explosives chemistry.