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Butchers bike, does anyone remember these in the street, I have a memory of a chap with a blue and white striped apron setting off from the butchers in the town, but don't remember them in the local streets.
number 3 in 115 pictures in 2015 "pub or shop sign"
Some advertising genius saw an opportunity to make money from urination.
Realizing that men at the urinal are a captive audience for 60 seconds, he created this digital urinal with a screen to display advertising messages.
London Transport has always relied heavily on income from commercial advertising revenues - monies made by selling advertising space on vehicles, stations and structures. In the 1930s the Commercial Advertising Department were themselves prolific advertisers in relevant trade journals (here in Art & Industry) and issued much publicity themselves. As in keeping with the company's strong ethos of 'fitness for purpose' even humble press adverts have a real sense of style about them as seen here.
Advertising escalator panel spaces this advert, both graphic and text, plays cleverly on 'steps' - steps on the escalator and the advertiser's next steps. It is thoughtfully set out, typographically, and the graphic captures escalators, passengers looking and a "step'. It is by "Eckersley-Lombers", the pre-war partnership of designers and artists Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers who also produced many posters and panel/car posters for LT as well.
The last line is very fine : The LT roundel symbol and "You can't get away from it"!
For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/advertising-blueness/
Public spaces have become just the place for advertising. Therefore, it does not matter which party is in government.
The companies of Richard Thomas (founded 1871) and Baldwins (founded c1870) merged in 1948 to form what was to be one of the largest UK steel manufacturers. By the date of this advert they were a nationalised concern and despite the fact the new Conservative governments of the 1950s wanted to return the company to private ownership it was still in state hands when the industry was re-nationalised in 1967. Despite the Park St address in London the company was solidly Welsh - the most important of their works being that at Ebbw Vale. In 1948 the company introduced the first continuous tin plate strip mill in the UK and this I suspect shows part of that process. I have to say I do like industrial art such as this - a real glimpse into the past of both process and people.