In
the 1940s the Bohn Aluminum and Brass Company ran an impressive series
of advertisements portraying the glorious postwar world of the latter
20th century. It was a future in which, by strange
coincidence, aluminium, brass and other light alloys would play a key
role.Luckily, light alloys lend
themselves to some very dramatic shapes and the directors of Bohn had
the good sense to let the advertising firm take the bit in their teeth
and run with it. I don't know how effective the campaign was in
the end, but it certainly afforded us some of the finest examples of
Future Past around. |