Oliver Whales Win a Navy

[coppinpr]

Is this a known Whales machine? I've never seen it before.

[polaris]

This one has been listed on Henry Powell's site for a few years.

[coppinpr]

I looked up "Navy Sweets, New Mills, Stockport. They seem to have used the slogan "the sweet with the hole" earlier than polo!. They made Mint, Fruits and butterscotch, they survived until about 2000.

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[slotalot]

I have just been looking back to when I sold you my old website
There was a Win a Navy listed on the Oliver Whales Collection page. It must have slipped off the page and into the ether somewhere along the way.
This is the photo if you want to re-attach it to the page.

[special when lit]

I've got one.

[coppinpr]

Post moved & merged - Site Admin.

Funny what comes to light when you look at it in a different way. This backflash looked like quite a random design until I rebuilt it for the customer, but once you see it without the ironmongery it's much clearer that it's a ship sailing towards you. A nice theme for the "NAVY" sweets.

[coppinpr]

Here are two adverts for Navy sweets. The first one shows just how big these companies were, offering a competition in 1955 with the first prize of a Ford Consul and 4th prize a TV (rare in 55, believe me). The car is listed as valued £700 (so the basic model). A great deal of money in 1955.

The second one will date anyone who remembers Edmondo Ros. Sadly I do remember him very well. I love the cartoon showing the formally dressed partygoers well happy with a packet of boiled sweets for their evening meal.
It is interesting that they could afford to use Ros (a UK superstar at the time and a favourite of the royal family) and John Mills (the UK's top-paid actor in the '50s) in their ads.

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[arrgee]

Edmondo Ros............ now that takes me back Paul, I well remember hearing him on the 'wireless'. Another name from those early boyhood days of the 1950s that some may remember was Uncle Mac, who would open his Saturday morning broadcast with the words, "Hello Children, everywhere" his actual name was Derek Ivor Breashur McCulloch, and was the commentator on the first radio broadcast of the FA Cup Final in 1927.

I wonder if he ate Navy sweets.