Description
Black and white 5 1/4″ x 14″ ad that tells us why the MacMillan Ring-Free Motor Oil was good to buy. This ad starts off with a Believe It or Not by Ripley ad telling us that “In England, in 700 A.D., if a traveler failed to blow his horn announcing his presence on a wooded road, he could be branded as a thief and beheaded“. The ad then tells us that “1.3 more Miles Per Gallon! That was the average gain in gas-mileage shown by Ring-Free in 1094 actual road tests”. Next, the ad tells us that “Macadam Roads should really be called MacGregor Roads. They are named after a Scottish roadbuilder whose real name was John Loudon MacGregor. When the MacGregor clan was outlawed and its name forbidden, John took his last name from Adam, the first man!”. All very interesting as is the rest of the text, particularly the price of 35 cents for a filter.
Source: May 20, 1940 Life magazine.
