SOLDLit: Commercial Art, Braun Robert, ‘Frank Brangwyn, RA – An Interview’, Vol 6, No 6, June 1926, p107
Ill: Commercial Art, Braun Robert, ‘Frank Brangwyn, RA – An Interview’, Vol 6, No 6, June 1926, p104; Rickards Maurice, The Rise and Fall of the Poster, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1971, p78
Zambrene were British manufacturers of Officer’s trench coats. The firm prided themselves on the fact that “The proofing employed in all the garments is the famous Zambrene 'Triple – Triple' proofing . Sir Betrand Dawson, physician to the British Royal family, declared that ‘the two great disappointments of the war were not medicine, but the Church of England and the waterproof raincoats' . Brangwyn did at least 4 designs for Zambrene - this one shows the skipper of a sailing barge (to judge by the block and tackle) peering through binoculars at a similar craft and maybe trying to identify it., The design was used in a large advertising poster measuring 120 x 180 with the caption ‘ZAMBRENE RUBBERLESS RAINCOATS’.
