“The 2.31s Late” – Armstrong Siddeley Cars Advertisement

A quarter-page black and white advertisement for Armstrong Siddeley Cars.

The image shows the Armstrong Siddeley Sphinx superimposed over a depiction of a Hawker Typhoon aircraft engaged in an attack on a goods train in Germany.

The caption for this series of advertisements reads “The story behind the post-war Armstrong Siddeley Cars” as the company transitioned from manufacture of aircraft in wartime to cars in peacetime following the Second World War.

The advertisement has been cut from Punch, or The London Charivari, magazine.