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

Poster
1936 (designed), 1936 (issued)
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.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleYou 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 createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548989/you-must-not-fail-them-poster-eckersley-tom-obe/
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