Friday, February 12, 2016

steam roller advertising

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  1. Hi Jesse,
    Yes, it's me again. "The Rolls Royce of Rollers". Perhaps they got away with it being in Australia. I always understood that the only authorised use of "The Rolls Royce of..." was by Brough Superior. Apparently when George Brough used the phrase in his advertising RR sent a representative to have words. The RR man saw a number of mechanics in cotton gloves fussing over the fit of the petrol tank on a sparkling new bike and was sufficiently impressed to give his blessing for the continued use of the name. GB had failed to mention that the machine was a special being prepared for the Brough stand at the London motorcycle show.
    Regards,
    Tony

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    1. cool info! Thanks

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    2. reading that the 2nd time, I'm even more impressed. I wonder if the entire thing was co-incidence, or hastily arranged to avoid a problem with Rolls Royce?

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  2. That Clarence Street address for Scruttons is in the Sydney CBD - I don't think that they would have had any Marshall rollers on site.

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    1. then there must be a plausible explanation... after all, they did advertise it like that. Maybe they had an office, which handled mail and deliveries. What's a CBD?

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    2. Jesse,

      CBD - Central Business District - full of office buildings, hence no rollers.

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    3. however, even the CBD had to be paved... so, the rollers were there at one time, and perhaps the best place to store them while paving that area of town was then kept in use, and bought by the steam roller company. Well, even a construction business had a reason to have an address in the business district

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