I'm probably the last person to notice this, but has anyone looked at the "Cottages4You" TV advert and noticed that under the Haworth picture, the two model locomtives have been defaced ?
Each has had the word "British" from British Railways" removed.
Why ?
After all, if you want to remove the "branding", why not take it all off ? I'd have blanked the things entirely including the numbers. As it is, they just look odd.
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Chances are they didn't want to offend anyone, even though they are trying to recreate a scene which is typically British
They are also advertising holidays in Britain. Anyway, the locos only appear on screen for a couple of seconds, only anoraks like me spot the problem !
My suspicion is they are worried about a trademark issue with a company that hasn't existed since the 1990's. Or that the director is an idiot.
I liked this advert until I spotted the very USA two tone whistle.
Someone may still own the trademark even though the company no longer exists.
Having worked in broadcast telly land for quarter of a century, sadly most of the time the people in charge of this sort of thing are simply ignorant baffoons.
Your comment about the producer/director being an idiot sums will be correct. These same people call a railway station a train station.
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