The Coronation Scot in advertising

Coronation Scot Exhibition
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Contemporary advertising featuring the Coronation Scot.

Cadburys chocolate

Advert featuring Driver Clarke, UK newspapers.

Mobil Oil, Time magazine, March 1939 (p.39)

"Coronation Scot", Mobiloil, Time Magazine, 1939

A full-page advert with the headline:

U.S. WELCOMES BRITAIN'S GREAT "CORONATION SCOT"

Britain's crack "streamliner" here for N.Y. World's Fair! "

, followed by a half-page landscape publicity photograph of the train, with an inset reading

On its tour of America, as well as at home ...

THIS RECORD-HOLDER IS LUBRICATED BY THE MAKERS OF MOBIL OIL!

Bottom left: two pictures with associate paragraph text:

MODERN IN EVERY DETAIL

-- from handset telephones, luxurious appointments in every car -- to lubrication by the makers of Mobiloil for the protection of her record-breaking engine.

BELL INSTALLED FOR U.S. TOUR

... none required in England. A special headlight also had to be installed. The "Scot" runs on a daylight schedule in England .. covers 400-mile run in 6 1/2 hours.

Bottom right:

Important to Car Owners throughout the U.S.A.

The costly engine of the "Coronation Scot" demands the best protection money can buy. That's why it's lubricated by Socony-Vacuum Products.

Your car can get the same positive protection. Use Mobiloil. it's made by Socony-Vacuum ... refined for modern automobile motors by the experts who lubricate a great part of the world's finest industrial machinery. Socony-vacuum Oil Company, Inc.

MOBILOIL

MADE FOR YOUR CAR BY LUBRICATION EXPERTS