Mr Therm's Pocket Showroom : advertising leaflet : c1950
A folding advertising sheet whose cover page simply states "Mr Therm's Pocket Showroom" and that when unfolded does just that - shows a wide range of gas appliances for domestic use. These include home laundry appliances that were 'plugged' into town gas supplies, refrigeration appliances, gas cookers, gas hot water geysers and gas fires - both fixed and portable. Such appliances were possibly int he day of manufactured town gas where the fumes, unlike the gas, were non-toxic and very unlike today's use of natural gas.
The leaflet mentiones that there is 'always a warm welcome in your gas showroom' and that most appliances would be available through most gas undertakings. It is unusual in that it bears no date nor does it have space for an overstamping of any participating undertaking so dating is difficult. Given the appliances, design and range of manufacturers, it feels c1950 by which date the UK town gas industry had been nationalised. The nationalised industry of Gas Council and area boards, who both manufactured and supplied town gas, still used the familiar Mr Therm figure - this had been designed in the early 1930s by artist and illustrator Eric Fraser for the old London based Gas Light & Coke Company who had allowed their creation to be successfully adopted by the wider gas industry.
Manufacturers mentioned include Cannon Iron Foundries, Parkinson Stove, R & A Main, General Gas Appliances Ltd, Ascot Water Heaters, Ewart & Sons Ltd, Ideal Boilers and Radiators Ltd, Potterton's, Thomas De La Rue, Allied Iron Founders, Flavel Ltd, Falk Stadelmann & Co Ltd, Bratt Colbran and Radiation Ltd. The latter in fact 'owned' many of the brands named above as did Allied Iron Founders.
Mr Therm's Pocket Showroom : advertising leaflet : c1950
A folding advertising sheet whose cover page simply states "Mr Therm's Pocket Showroom" and that when unfolded does just that - shows a wide range of gas appliances for domestic use. These include home laundry appliances that were 'plugged' into town gas supplies, refrigeration appliances, gas cookers, gas hot water geysers and gas fires - both fixed and portable. Such appliances were possibly int he day of manufactured town gas where the fumes, unlike the gas, were non-toxic and very unlike today's use of natural gas.
The leaflet mentiones that there is 'always a warm welcome in your gas showroom' and that most appliances would be available through most gas undertakings. It is unusual in that it bears no date nor does it have space for an overstamping of any participating undertaking so dating is difficult. Given the appliances, design and range of manufacturers, it feels c1950 by which date the UK town gas industry had been nationalised. The nationalised industry of Gas Council and area boards, who both manufactured and supplied town gas, still used the familiar Mr Therm figure - this had been designed in the early 1930s by artist and illustrator Eric Fraser for the old London based Gas Light & Coke Company who had allowed their creation to be successfully adopted by the wider gas industry.
Manufacturers mentioned include Cannon Iron Foundries, Parkinson Stove, R & A Main, General Gas Appliances Ltd, Ascot Water Heaters, Ewart & Sons Ltd, Ideal Boilers and Radiators Ltd, Potterton's, Thomas De La Rue, Allied Iron Founders, Flavel Ltd, Falk Stadelmann & Co Ltd, Bratt Colbran and Radiation Ltd. The latter in fact 'owned' many of the brands named above as did Allied Iron Founders.