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"Out West" Norwich Union Cinema Advertisement
It's all hip and happening working in insurance, as this 1971 recruitment advertisement for Norwich Union, made for cinema screening, shows.
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Overview
Norwich Union aim to persuade school-leavers that a career in insurance is interesting, exciting and rewarding, in this recruitment advertisement from 1971, which would have been screened at local picturehouses.
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