Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Shell distributes more petrol refined from crude oils produced within the British Empire tha all the other petrol-distributing companies in Great Britain combined [print].

Accession number
PML 147579
Published
[London : Shell-Mex Ltd., 1923]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At foot of sheet: Reduce friction losses by lubricating with Shell motor oils / Shell-Mex Ltd: Shell Corner, Kingsway, London, W.C.2.
Entire text transcribed.
Signed within image at lower right: Edmund J. Sullivan 1923.
Library's copy has been folded, retaining a horizontal crease across the center of the sheet; this copy printed on thin magazine paper.
Description
1 poster : photoengraving ; image: 525 x 390 mm; sheet: 639 x 506 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Poster shows the figure of Britannia, at right, with a large urn, drawing oil (?) from a fountain with a lion-head spout, shell-shaped spill basin emptying into a large pool.
Classification
Department