Old advert for the Gas Council promoting cooking dinner on a gas cooker. It appeared in a magazine published in the UK in 1959. The advert features a comic strip story of a housewife cooking dinner at short notice for her husband and his boss - the formal, patronising tone of which would be deemed sexist by modern standards. It also features the Mr Therm marketing character
Old advert for the Gas Council promoting cooking dinner on a gas cooker. It appeared in a magazine published in the UK in 1959. The advert features a comic strip story of a housewife cooking dinner at short notice for her husband and his boss - the formal, patronising tone of which would be deemed sexist by modern standards. It also features Mr Therm. Mr Therm was a marketing character designed by Eric Fraser in 1932 for Gas Light & Coke Company. It was later adopted by the British gas industry - vintage nineteen fifties graphics for editorial use only.
Size: 2576px × 3543px
Location: UK
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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