The Art of the Press Photo  

      

The 130+ photos below are some of the many highly creative images which were produced by the marketing departments of Britain's major car manufacturers from the late 1940s to 1970s and feature the different techniques the photographers used to attract interest in the cars as well as make each model of car look as appealing as possible to potential buyers 

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