Stuart's Advertising Agency was, during the 1920s and 1930s, one of the leading

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advertising agencies.

History

Located at Kingsway House, Kingsway, the firm was founded in 1922 by H. Stuart Menzies. It had accounts with

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, Indian Trans-Continental Airways, Lewis Berger Paints,

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. Menzies retired in 1938-39 and moved first to

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and later to

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with his wife Elizabeth.{{cn, date=May 2007

Employees

Marcus Brumwell joined the firm in the early 1920s and became Managing Director when Menzies retired. Two other influential figures in the organisation in the late 1930s were D Lewis and the typographer/copywriter Robert Harling. While Menzies was an exceptional

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, Brumwell played a key role in liaising with leading contemporary artists of the time:

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and

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Recognition

Stuart Advertising Agency is featured in the

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''Bright Ties Bold Ideas - Marcus Brumwell, Pioneer of C20 Advertising, Champion of the Artists'' by Joe Brumwell published in 2010 and entertaining a la carte by Mainstone Press, 2007.

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