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-
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-
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