It’s Getting Colder…Time to Stock up on Coal

Now the delivery of coal in Shanghai was a regular thing and very necessary to keep all those boilers going when, as now, the winter chills swept over the city. It’s not the most glamorous of businesses and usually employs the least glamorous of people (I find it hard to believe that I am actually old enough to remember the coal man with his cart and horse delivering bags of coal to my grandparents in Tottenham!! Blimey!!). However, respect to Hongay Coal (‘The Best Anthracite in the Far East’ – and who am I to argue!) who took some effort to produce this great modernist ad for coal delivery – what images, what typography, what thought – and all for the bags of black stuff. They’d have got my order right enough.