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BURBERRYS LTD

... BURBERRYS ltd. BURBERRYS BURBERRYS Burberrys, the registered -trade name, is British, but knows no borders in its fame and only knows one limit to the quality of the clothes that bear its name the best. In war, as in peace, Burberrys is a front line term for Services Equipment to the United Forces. Weatherproofs, Greatcoats and Uniforms are Burberrys contribution in a vital war of supply. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 91 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE MOTOR INDUSTRY

... ME MOTOR INDUSTRY ME MOTOR INDUSTRY XamtkeTuihT'utHSpcttte'i.. When tanks go into battle, I'm not so far away. For only I can pick up these steel-clad monsters weighing 20 tons or more and bring them back to the repair shops. I'm made by the Motor Industry with that same high precision which goes into the production of those other instruments of war, which are flowing from the factories of ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 102 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Dreadnought Top coats

... umum 1 1 *W-' *1 -----mmm c*&-wtts£!!& 1 for LEFT The belt of this three-quarter-length model is slotted through the side seams it can be worn in front, at the back, or not at all. From Jaeger's. (18 coupons.) CENTRE Marshall and Snelgrove still have a few pieces of boxcloth, pre-war quality and in hunting pink. The coat sketched is half-lined, so it needs only 15 coupons. RIGHT Another ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 95 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

A BASE AFFAIR

... . By N. G. STRONG. THERE'S a man-eating Commission escaped, announced the Captain's secretary, and it's heading this way. There are glooms and glooms; from the mild depression to the black, despondent gloom. That which now permeated the wardroom of Mudsea Naval Base was of the genuine Stygian variety. The Waste Prevention Officer was the first to attempt to combat the quivering silence, ...

Graphic

... Ol! 'OO GOES THERE, CAROLINE TUBBS A BETTER MAN THAN YOU ARE, GEORGE SPRAT! B DRAWS BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 19 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Please forward

... Pilots By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Faith always said she was going to have her baby on Christmas Day, and she did. The birth was what the Doctors call easy and uneventful (as though any birth could be either!), and Faith came through with flying colours, but we had a terrible time with the Conductor. It was about 4 a.m. on Christmas Eve morning when I woke up and found the Conductor ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1001 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE AUSTIN MOTOR CO. LTD

... , FROM AUSTINS TO AUSTIN OWNERS THE TASTER YOU GO THE FASTER GO YOUR TYRES How tempting, with the urgency of war- work as an tAvUOVj LU glVC jUUl Club 1111 its head on the open road. But how much better for the war effort to set out earlier if you pan and take it slower. Tyres running at 30 m.p.h. last twice as iong as at 50 m.p.h. Higher speeds are very much more destructive. Rough surfaces ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 131 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: An Open Book

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. An Open Book. Would that I were one of those gifted persons who could read the stars like an open book and tell you all that is going to happen in 1944! The only thing I can tell you definitely about 1944 is that it is going to be a Leap Year (though, in view of the bigamy statis tics, I should not have thought that quite necessary), and that Mars will be in the ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2473 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Mrs. Savernack and I have become Bosom Friends. I know this news will astonish you; indeed, it has astonished me more than a little, for though Mrs. S. and I have always had a lurking affection for each other we have never let it- be known, and she never misses an opportunity of saying, both to my face and behind my back, that she considers me vain, facetious ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1192 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

... FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITEC >RD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED, INSERTED BY ihttll tfftClt 4 4 4 When victory comes when the gates of the prison camps have been opened British prisoners of war will come streaming back to freedom. Until then, the Red Cross and St. John parcels make all the difference to their daily lives help them to bear the privations of captivity. Enter for the £250 RED CROSS RADIO ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 99 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Table Waters

... The Minni Cup Norsemen toasted Thor and Odin and living kings in the minni. What the drink was we do not know possibly a kind of spruce beer but minni came to have the meaning of love, memory and the thought of absent ones and the custom survived in England down to the middle ages and later in the minnying or mynde days. Schweppes famous since IJf)0 Temporarily giving place to the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 85 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... j IT- FITNESS FOB I PUJRPOSE IN these days of restricted buying, one worth-while truth learned is that the best is cheapest in the end. It applies to guns and planes just as much as to shoes and ships and sealing-wax. To electric fires, too THE Ferranti Radiant Fire has always been the cheapest to use, though never the cheapest to buy. THE present restricted output of electric fires has ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 301 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations