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Advertising in the past

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I find it so hard to believe that such jobs existed. Born in 1938 I always feel that such tasks were done with machines as shown on Pathe Pictorial in cinemas prior to TV . No wonder kids these days believe that there is such a product as Mc Donald's meat and that real meat don't come from cows.
Cheers Simple Tim.
 
Does anyone remember the laundry ad on the cinemas which said "Don't kill your wife with washing. Let us do it for you." I remember it as Smethwick Laundries but it could have been a generic advert to which they added local laundry names.

Have just found this on the internet from somewhere in London
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There was a large number of adverts that were banned years ago, I have omitted the ones that verged on porn and I hope none of the following cause concern.5-1.jpg 18-1.jpg
 
I like the smiling Gendarme in the advert, my first sight of a Gendarme was in the port of Algiers, he was throwing rocks at the Arab boys who were running around the waterfront.
My second was on my first trip across the continent, the coach operator was on his first ever run down to the Costa Brava, on our return he fill up with fuel for the long trip home, when we crossed the border into France he was pulled over by two gendarmes on motor bikes and forced to pay a huge lump of duty on the fuel in his tank, pay or stay they told him.
 
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This one belongs the group of adverts that were banned for various reasons.
 
Two lovely Phillips bicycle adverts from the Birmingham based company in the 1950s. Viv.
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The Clyno Engineering Company Ltd. was a motorcycle and car manufacturer in Wolverhampton from 1910 to 1929 and at one point in that period they became Britain's third largest car manufacturer. Before this period they had been based in Thrapston for one year from 1909 to 1910.
 
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The telegram and the 'code used' entry on the top advert take me back and also those three figure telephone numbers (although we only ever had those in North Devon where when I first arrive in 1970. you picked up the phone and asked for Braunton 2 or 17 or the Doctor and in the case of the latter were told 'oh he's gone out, but I'll get the receptionist to tell him you wanted him!'), then the next step were the three letters MID, AST,ERD followed by four figures I can still remember our number ERD 4065, but I also remember both at Cannings and Dunlop the telegraphic addresses being regularly used and then at Forward Trust they were replaced by the chattering teleprinter spewing out its reams of paper and now look at us, tablets, Ipads, phones that take photographs......times forgot. remembered and then gone.

Bob
 
The Lux tips have brought back memories Stitcher. We always stuck the remains of the old bar onto the new bar and never left it in the water or it'd turn into a squiggy mess. But we always rubbed soap on the flannel. Imagine all that wasted soap over the years !

Can just about make out something about a coupon. Soaps often had coupons with money off, not necessarily on the bar of soap, but often in newspaper adverts. Viv.
 
Just noticed on the Ration Book Britain thread that soap was rationed, so maybe the 'coupon' refers to rationing. Before my time. If so, it must make the advert around early 1940s. Whatever the date, the tips it suggests obviously stuck with my parents. Viv.
 
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Soap rationing was from Feb 1942 - Sept.1950. the idea was to save oils and fats that could be used for food.
All types of soap were rationed. Coupons were allotted by weight or (if liquid) by quantity. In 1945, the ration gave four coupons each month; babies and some workers and invalids were allowed more.[34] A coupon would yield:

 
I remember as the war ended a guy with a van selling liquid detergent that wasn't rationed it was in a large barrel and he filled your bottle for a few pence. I think it was surplus from the US army when they returned home. Green thick stuff a bit like Swarfega but probably just concentrated Fairy Liquid or similar.
 
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