You Must Not Fail Them, London Transport An Ever Ready Help

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Artist/Maker	London Passenger Transport Board (issued by) Eckersley, Tom (OBE) (designer) Lombers, Eric (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Side panel (one of two) to a triptych colour lithograph poster entitled (on the centre panel) ‘You Must Not Fail Them, London Transport An Ever Ready Help’. Signed and dated.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Transport Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	You Must Not Fail Them, London Transport An Ever Ready Help
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph print Colour Lithography
Brief description	Side panel (one of two) to a triptych colour lithograph poster entitled (on the centre panel) ‘You Must Not Fail Them, London Transport An Ever Ready Help’. Designed by Tom Eckersley (OBE) and Eric Lombers. Issued by the London Passenger Transport Board. London, England. 1936.
Physical description	Side panel (one of two) to a triptych colour lithograph poster entitled (on the centre panel) ‘You Must Not Fail Them, London Transport An Ever Ready Help’. Signed and dated.
Dimensions	Height: 101.4cm Width: 63.5cm Dimensions taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions	(Signed and dated 1936.)
Subject depicted	Transport
Associated object	E.587-1981 (Set)
Bibliographic reference	Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other number	11/G5 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.588-1981

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548989/you-must-not-fail-them-poster-eckersley-tom-obe/

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