Guinness Festival Clock
The Guinness Festival Clock was first seen at the Festival of Britain. It was moved down to Great Yarmouth when the Festival closed. quotGuinness Festival Clock. The clock operates every quarter hour.quot quotThis is a real photograph.quot Subject Terms Clocks. Festival of Britain 1951 Great Britain Guinness Firm Postcards -- Specimens. FormGenre
The Guiness Clock at the Festival of Britain 1951. Guinness adverts are recognised as the most ostentatious on television, and the brewery's contribution to
The Guinness Festival Clock It was the brainchild of the Guinness Advertising Manager Martin Pick, who had trained as an engineer before he entered the world of advertising. The Clock was designed by the firm of Lewitt Him and took five months for clockmakers Baume and Co Ltd. of Hatton Garden to construct. Standing 25 feet high, the Clock's
The Guinness Festival Clock was one such exhibit and it was the brain child of the company's advertising manager, Martin Pick. The clock was the product of three creative forces. It was actually built by the London Clockmakers Baume and Co. It was an elaborate piece of machinery incorporating nine reversible electric motors and three
One particularly popular feature of the funfair district was the Guinness Festival Clock, a 25-foot clock sponsored by the Beermaker Guinness, which had rotating mechanical features, and decorations inspired by characters from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Meanwhile, the fairground offered up a Big Dipper, a Bubble Bounce, a Loop-O
Reproduced with permission from the Guinness Archive, Diageo Ireland. CrazyClock is an account of the thought processes, considerations, design and ongoing construction of a 3.6 metre tall animated clock based upon the original Guinness Clock in the Festival of Britain in 1951.
The Guinness Festival Clock featured well known characters from Guinness advertisements which everybody knew at the time. The 'Guinness animals' were the creation of artist John Gilroy of S.H.Benson's advertising agency. He produced a series of colourful and amusing posters in which different zoo animals made off with their keeper's Guinness!
The Guinness Festival Clock was one of the most popular attractions at the pleasure gardens. Every quarter of an hour it would burst into action with characters appearing and moving, the triangular vanes at the top opening and spinning and doors opening at the lower front to reveal the Guinness Toucan. The Guinness Festival Clock was designed
The Guinness Clock was a very popular feature in the Festival of Britain Pleasure Gardens, surrounded by rows of seats to sit and watch. If you have any stories or photographs of the Guinness Clock we would be glad to share them, with credits. Below is a selection of postcards featuring the clock.
The original Guinness novelty Clock was the brainchild of Guinness's advertising manager, Martin Pick, as an exhibit for the Festival of Britain in 1951. It was designed by Lewitt Him amp Co. and took Hatton Garden clockmakers, Baume amp Co. five months to build with the clock being erected in Battersea Pleasure Gardens upon completion.
