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]
Description: 
1 poster : photoengraving ; image: 525 x 390 mm; sheet: 639 x 506 mm
Credit: 
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.

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.

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