Shell’s Shilling Guides

Here are a series of illustrations Shell commissioned for the Shilling Guides with BP in the early 1960s. These guides were designed to be used when driving and only had a few pages, with colour illustrated covers, folded in half.

Richard Eurich – Huntingdonshire, 1961

In all 48 Shilling guides were made and these are few of the covers designed by leading artists of the day. Later the same artworks were turned into posters that were used in schools. Some of the illustrations were used in other Shell books, but it is an interesting collection, something that should have been bought for the nation.

Julian Trevelyan – Staffordshire, 1962
Rowland Hilder – Warwickshire, 1962
Walter Hoyle – Oxfordshire, 1961
S.R. Badmin – Shropshire, 1962
Ken Bennetts – Londonderry, 1962
Richard Eurich – Anglesey, 1962
John Nash – Cambridgeshire, 1962
John Aldridge – Norfolk, 1962
George Hooper – Bute, Scotland, 1961
Keith Shackleton – Hampshire, 1964