Adverts from Picture Post, 11 February 1956
Picture Post - in its day a highly influential British magazine although by this date it was within a year of closure, a victim of several factors including a degree of editiorial instability with the owner attempting unsuccessfully to re-orientate the magazine and readership.
This twin colour ad page mentions a brand that is still going strong, the American Wrigley Company, whose chewing gums had apparently been even more popularised by the vast numbers of US Services personnel stationed in the UK during WW2. That said the company had been selling their products in the UK from early in the 20th century and had set up works in Wembley, London, in 1927. This advert for Spearmint includes a version of the "Wrigley's arrow man" often used in adverts.
Raymar Carpets was a tradename of Petmar Industries of Batley in West Yorkshire. I can find little out about them only that in the 1950s tehy appear to have been in the forefront of manufacturing 'tufted' carpets that had a distinct price advantage over traditional woven carpets, hence this advert.
Adverts from Picture Post, 11 February 1956
Picture Post - in its day a highly influential British magazine although by this date it was within a year of closure, a victim of several factors including a degree of editiorial instability with the owner attempting unsuccessfully to re-orientate the magazine and readership.
This twin colour ad page mentions a brand that is still going strong, the American Wrigley Company, whose chewing gums had apparently been even more popularised by the vast numbers of US Services personnel stationed in the UK during WW2. That said the company had been selling their products in the UK from early in the 20th century and had set up works in Wembley, London, in 1927. This advert for Spearmint includes a version of the "Wrigley's arrow man" often used in adverts.
Raymar Carpets was a tradename of Petmar Industries of Batley in West Yorkshire. I can find little out about them only that in the 1950s tehy appear to have been in the forefront of manufacturing 'tufted' carpets that had a distinct price advantage over traditional woven carpets, hence this advert.