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| St Albans |
This post card recently came up for sale on ebay - and I couldn't resist it. I needed to find why an extremely unusual advertising card had been published by the Alpha Trading Company of St Albans.
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| Photographers |
It turns out that the inventor of Reilloc Tyres lived in St Albans, his son worked for the movie film pioneer Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, and the picture may be a still from a very early advertising film.
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