Advertising Poster Scotch Ale Younger Beer Car Motoring Cartoon. Original vintage alcohol drink advertising poster ...

Advertising Poster Scotch Ale Younger Beer Car Motoring Cartoon. Original vintage alcohol drink advertising poster for Scotch Ale issued by Wm Younger & Co Ltd Brewers in Edinburgh featuring a great cartoon by George E. Studdy (George Ernest Studdy; 1878-1948) of two policeman in uniform wading through water and looking in shock at a white convertible car that has crashed through a wooden fence into a ditch with the driver holding up a bottle and glass of Scotch Ale in triumph, the poem below reading: When roads are soft and hills are long, Or when your steering gear goes wrong, And you explore a ditch in Surrey, Just drink Scotch Ale and do not worry. The William Younger & Company Brewery was founded in Edinburgh in 1778 in the grounds of Holyrood Abbey by Archibald Campbell Younger; the company was registered in 1887 and was producing a quarter of all Scotland's beers by the 1900s; in 1986 the Holyrood Brewery complex closed (now the Scottish Parliament building), and in 2017 the brand was sold to Marston's Brewery. Scotch Ale is a type of beer that refers to a strong pale ale produced in Edinburgh Scotland. Fair condition, paper browned, staining on margins, small restored paper losses on margin. Country of issue: UK , designer: George E. Studdy, size (cm): 43x28, year of printing: 1922.