Explore the colourful, kooky world of advertising in the GEC Traction archive.
The GEC Traction archive contains many quirky and unusual adverts. Project volunteers Danika Willis and Ben Cudbertson pick their favourites, selected for the humour, vivid colours and graphics.
![Metrovick’s Cosmos Lamps’, Metropolitan Vickers Gazette, 1937. NRM Ref: ALS2/55/C/9](https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GEC-jan2016-1.jpg)
NRM Ref: ALS2/55/C/9
!['Electrodes for Every Purpose’, Metropolitan Vickers Gazette, 1937. NRM Ref: ALS2/55/C/9](https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GEC-jan2016-2.jpg)
NRM Ref: ALS2/55/C/9
![Brecknell-Willis pantograph advert. NRMRef: ALS2/95/E/5](https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GEC-jan2016-3.jpg)
NRMRef: ALS2/95/E/5
![The best answer is Brush Bagnall’, Diesel Railway Traction Gazette, 1952. NRM Ref: ALS2/95/D/7](https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GEC-jan2016-4.jpg)
NRM Ref: ALS2/95/D/7
![Not all Bogies have wheels’, Diesel Railway Traction Gazette, 1952. NRM Ref: ALS2/95/D/7](https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GEC-jan2016-5.jpg)
NRM Ref: ALS2/95/D/7
![Vulcan Foundry produced ‘Matilda’ tanks and over 500 ‘Austerity’ locomotives for use during World War Two, Metropolitan-Vickers Gazette. C. 1940s. NRM Ref: ALS2/95/C/7](https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GEC-jan2016-6.jpg)
NRM Ref: ALS2/95/C/7
![InterCity’s final journey souvenir train pun menu, 16th April 1988. NRM Ref: ALS2/97/A/5](https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GEC-jan2016-7.jpg)
NRM Ref: ALS2/97/A/5
![Electric Traction Equipment, English Electric Company Publication, No. M42B. NRM Ref: ALS2/95/E/3](https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GEC-jan2016-8.jpg)
NRM Ref: ALS2/95/E/3
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Brush, Brecknell Willis and Tecalemit were not GEC companies
Hi Joe,
The GEC Archive Collection spans from 1898 – 1994 and encompasses GEC Traction constituent and subsidiary successor and predecessor companies archive material. The adverts are from ephemera collected from GEC Traction, English Electric, AEI, Metrovicks etc which form part of the archive.
Charlotte