Racing Motorists Use Shell

Shell poster number 539, Racing Motorists (1939) by Richard Guyatt. Painting of a racing driver (head and shoulders) smoking a cigarette, with crowd in background.

Key facts

Catalogue Number

539
Title

Racing Motorists Use Shell
Date

1939
Artist

Richard Guyatt

Racing Motorists is set at Brooklands race track. Originally Richard Guyatt gave the driver a caricatured face which Jack Beddington (Shell’s Publicity Manager at the time) rejected. Beddington substituted a photo of Richard Guyatt himself instead.