Beer is Best dray delivery to 10 Downing Street, 21 February 1936

The front radiator banner of this Thorneycroft flatbed dray with a Reading numberplate, prominently displays “Beer is Best”, which was the famous nationwide British generic advertising campaign launched in 1933 by the Brewers’ Society to combat falling beer sales during the Great Depression.

It used iconic printed advertisements like this by F.C Harrison to generate new sales for a struggling industry.


Beer is Best advertisement by F.C. Harrison