Service to Industry, British Railways Large Original 1950s Poster

Description

Date:
1950s
Size:
40 x 50 in (101 x 127 cm)
Condition:
B+, newly linenbacked, closed tears at edges not affecting image.
Artist:
Alasdair Macfarlane (1902-1960)
Description:
Created partially in response to the General Strike of 1926, the "Industries" series of British rail posters was "radically different to the conventional middle-class approach of the railway poster ... [showing] how ignorant and unsympathetic the middle class were towards the working man and these pictures lent him a recognizable dignity" (Golden Age of Travel, p. 100).
The new ore discharging plant at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow. Planned to provide a speedy handling, the ore is conveyed by rail from the plant to the ironworks and steel works in Lanarkshire in specially constructed 33-ton hopper wagons. Featuring an image of the plant with shunters, cranes, ships in the background and trains on the railway tracks in the foreground. Printed in Great Britain by McCorquodale, Glasgow, in margin.
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