Advertising reflecting the good old British brands that saw a nation through difficult times ....click on image to enlarge

Mullard ‘Princely’ car radio 1938

Lilliput Omnibus

1938

Cossor Model 33

radio 1940

Cossor Model 71 radio1940

Cossor 6 valve superhet

radio 1939

Eno’s Fruit Salts

November 1943

Bovril

November 1943

Shredded Wheat

1940

Vapex Cold relief

1941

Bourn-vita

1941

From 1939 onwards the war was very evident in advertising as it moved away from Luxury goods to the basics like Bovril and Bourn-vita!

Christmas time and life in ‘the Mess’ still warrented the advertising of a few essentials however!

Caleys chocolates at Christmas 1942

Greys Cigarettes 1942

Guinness in the Mess 1942

Swallow raincoats on active service 1941