“Furniture Removals by Steam Road Locomotives, Railway &c” - Archer Cowley & Co: thus ran the advertising slogan for Archer Cowley & Co’s furniture storage warehouse. And the characteristics that were extolled were that it was not only heated but it was also: “Lofty, Dry, Clean and Light”. Moreover AC&Co were agents for Carter Paterson & Co Ltd, which, much later became British Road Services, a nationalised company - see information form Wikipedia on 22.10.16 below.
The leaflet focuses strongly on the excellence of the Archer Cowley & Co warehousing facilities, so perhaps this advertising effort made by this printed bill was timed not very long after the building of the Park End Street warehousing in the first decade of the 20th century, which fits with the time when the wagon shown would have been a timely reminder of the excellence of the firm’s wagons.
The relationship with Radley College was unknown to me before the discovery of the Archer Cowley & Co album. No one had ever mentioned it to me. How long the reationship lasted, I know not. I don’t think it existed in my young days. The GWR did have a station at Radley, on the line from Didcot (Didcot Junction, Appeford Halt, Culham, Radley and Oxford General, were the stations), and presumably did so from the earliest days of the GWR at Oxford, and this would pre-date AC&Co, but evidently that mattered not.
Obviously, this leaflet pre-dates the preceding one notifying the removal of head-office to Park End Street.