Friday, the 24th of November 1922

[Tony Griffiths]

Imagine that it’s Friday, the 24th of November 1922 and workers ramping up production of the Seven have spent a long and tiring week ironing out a thousand and one snags. Armed with their cash bonus, to celebrate, the men descend on a local pub, the Dog and Duck, for a riotous, drunken, fun-filled evening. Unfortunately, with cash to splash (as we say today), things quickly got out of control with two local bobbies, truncheons at the ready, were forced to quieten things down. Word of the disruption reached both the ears of the local paper and Sir Herbert and so, to forestall the resulting bad publicity, it was decided to attempt a prompt and effective distraction. Marched in at 6 the next morning, the entire publicity department was told to get on with an advertisement to show what Longbridge shop-floor workers might do on a typical night out. Fortunately, things were hushed up and the artwork was never used and locked away in a cupboard for 100 years. Recently discovered, it's reproduced below. Click for a higher-resolution copy.

[robert regan]

If they thought that a shop floor worker spent a night out in a place like that and dressed in clothes depicted here , I think there would have been a queue a mile long outside longbridge the next day to get some of those wages, talk about "delving into the realms of pure fantacy" regards to all Rob.