If you are not a member of my Ipswich Corporation/BoroughTransport/Buses group on Facebook you won't know what i'm talking about, the conversation has been all about adverts whether it be Trolleybuses, Regent V's or Atlantean T adverts, the distinguishing features of the trolleybuses were the rather narrow destination box, which allowed adverts on the front in between the destination display, typically Gordon's Gin as seen above on 116 a Sunbeam/Park Royal trolleybus, on the side was an advert for Arrowmint chewing gum a name all but forgotten. Know the photo below you certainly wouldn't get away with these day since Cigarette advertisements have been banned is that of Capstan a familiar name for smokers after the Second World War, also note no front adverts, in this typically austere setting of Electric House, Tower Ramparts School and the Car Park, Karrier/Park Royal 98 PV 6893.
By the time Motorbuses came along the adverts became smaller, note that both companies advertising here have long since gone as displayed on AEC Regent V OPV 48, Alan Manning Furniture Specialists on the front and on the side Starlite Club on Spring Road a Casino no less.
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