A careless lathe operator getting his tie caught in the lathe. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943.

  • Mendoza, Philip.
Date:
[1943]
Reference:
612118i
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A careless lathe operator getting his tie caught in the lathe. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Necktie at top, necktie worn by the operator, and necktie forming exclamation mark at end of lettering, appear to show the colours of the Marylebone Cricket Club (orange and yellow stripes)

Publication/Creation

London (Terminal House, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.1.) : Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, [1943] ([Place of manufacture not identified] : Loxley Bros. Ltd.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76 x 50 cm

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Lettering

Neck ware ; 'ware neck! Mendoza Bears number: MLG/119 Bears device: triangle with cogwheels

Notes

Impression catalogued on verso of Wellcome Library catalogue no. 32593i, dated 1943

Reference

Wellcome Collection 612118i

Creator/production credits

Summary catalogue of British posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Haslemere 1990, p. 60, states that "Mendoza" was a pseudonym. All the works catalogued under that name are on the verso of other posters, like this one

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