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    • Indian State Air Services >
      • 1929 Karachi - Delhi via Hyderabad & Jodhpur
    • Delhi Flying Club >
      • 1931 Emergency Flight by Delhi Flying Club
      • 1932 Karachi - Delhi
    • Indian Trans-Continental Airways >
      • 1933 Karachi - Calcutta >
        • 1933 Eastwards: Karachi - Calcutta
        • 1933 Westwards: Calcutta to Karachi
      • 1933 Calcutta - Rangoon via Akyab >
        • 1933 Eastwards: Calcutta - Rangoon via Akyab
        • 1933 Westwards: Rangoon - Calcutta via Akyab
      • 1933 Karachi - Singapore Extension
      • 1934 Karachi - Australia Extension
      • 1936 Rangoon - Hong Kong
    • Indian National Airways >
      • 1933 Calcutta - Dacca
      • 1933 Rangoon - Calcutta
      • 1934 Karachi - Lahore
      • 1940 Karachi - Calcutta via Lahore
      • 1939 Karachi - Delhi
      • 1947 Calcutta - Rangoon
    • Madras Air Taxi Service
    • Experimental & Survey Flights. >
      • 1931 England - Australia Flight >
        • 1st Experimental Flight
        • 2nd Experimental Flight
      • 1938 Flying Boat Coogee
    • Star Line
  • Tata Airlines
    • 1931 - Karachi - Madras: Route Survey Flight
    • 1932 - Karachi - Madras >
      • Official Southbound
      • Official Northbound
      • Other Southbound
      • Other Northbound
      • Other Material
    • 1933 - Karachi - Madras via Poona
    • 1935 Karachi - Madras via Hyderabad >
      • 1935 - Karachi - Madras via Hyderabad
      • 1935 Bombay-Hyderabad Errors on Stamp
    • 1935 - Bombay - Calcutta demonstration flight
    • 1935 - Bombay - Travancore via Goa & Cannanore
    • 1936 - Madras to Colombo via Trichinopoly
    • 1937 - First Flight to Bhuj
    • 1937 - Delhi - Bombay via Gwalior, Bhopal & Indore
    • 1938 - Karachi - Madras extension to Colombo via Trichnopoly
    • 1938 - Trichinopoly - Trivandrum extension
    • 1938 - Mansoon halt at Poona
    • 1946 - Bombay - Calcutta via Nagpur
  • Air-India
    • 1948 Air-India International Bombay - London Flight >
      • Postage Stamps - Constant Errors
      • The Postage Stamp
      • First Day Covers
      • DG's Circular & Postal Notices
      • Official Covers
      • Air-India Covers
      • Special Flight Cachet
      • Postage Rates gallery
      • Local Cancellations
      • Private Covers Gallery
      • Interesting Places of Origin & Destinations >
        • Interesting Destinations
        • Interesting Places of Origin
        • Interesting Places of Origin & Destinations
      • More interesting covers
      • Return Flight covers
      • Other Philatelic Curiosities
      • Award winning exhibit
    • 1948 - 1953 Early Route Expansion
    • 1954 - 1959 Early Route Expansion
    • 1960 - 1965 Air-India Boeing 707 Era.
    • 1966 - 1970 Air-India Boeing 707 Era.
    • 1971 - 1975 Boeing 747 & Other Aircraft Era
    • 1976 Onward Boeing 747 & Other Aircraft Era
    • Crash Mail Covers
    • Postal Meter panels
  • Indian Airlines
    • 1960 - 1964
    • 1965 - 1969
    • 1970 - 1974
    • 1975 - 1979
    • 1980 - Onward
    • Crash Mail Covers
    • Meter Panel & Stationery
  • Foreign Airlines
    • B.O.A.C. >
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 1 Jetliner Service London to Colombo August 1952
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 1 Jetliner Service London to Singapore October 1952
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 1 Jetliner Service London to Tokyo April 1953
      • B.O.A.C. Britannia Turbo-Prop Airliner London to Sydney March 1957
      • B.O.A.C. Britannia Turbo-Prop Airliner London to Tokyo July 1957
      • B.O.A.C. Britannia Turbo-Prop Airliner London to Colombo August-September 1957
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Tokyo April 1959
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Singapore June 1959
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Sydney November 1959
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Manila November 1961
      • B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner Service London to Auckland April 1963
      • B.O.A.C. Boeing 707 London to Nandi November 1965
      • B.O.A.C. VC 10 40th Anniversary of Regular Airmail
  • Others
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      • LZ-10 Schwaben
      • LZ-13 Hansa
      • LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin
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      • Catapult Mail
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Air-India Hoardings - Artwork



Air-India used outdoor advertising very creatively, and had two prominent and permanent sites in Mumbai where new hoardings would be put up regularly. The older site was at Kemps Corner junction, and then another came up outside the Air-India building at Nariman Point. These were most often tongue-in-cheek, often irreverent, but always in good humor. We would all watch out for these and wait for the next one to be put up. I have managed to get original artworks for 46 of these, dating to the early 1960s,  which I will display below with artwork dimensions in mm.
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Help wanted

There is a lot more work I need to do on this page, and need your help for it. I need to date the hoardings, and also provide a context so that visitors can get the story behind each of the designs. I will appreciate any help I can get. Please write to me using the CONTACT page, and simple mention the reference number I have given to each, or reproduce the slogan; help me with the date, or explain what the slogan is referring to, and why.

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#1. Bowl a Maiden Over


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#2. Since Both Can't Come First

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#3. Sorry old man - no sleigh riding

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#4. Richer for the Bounty of Your Presence

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#5. I've been Looping the Loop for Years!

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#6. Not with My Privy Pursers. You don't!

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#7. The Drape of Things to Come

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#8. Dear Oh Dior

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#9. Hi Atus

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#10. Of Course, Kissing is an Import from the West.

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#11. Sorry Old Boy

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#12. Beat It to London 10 Times A Week

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#13. Vinci Winces

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#14. The Unsold Story

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#15. I Dreamed, I was a Passenger With My 'P' Form

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#16. Just You Wait 'Ormusji' Iggins

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#17. You Too Can Sumo at Tokyo

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#18. Toplessly Yours

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#19. My Fare-Lady

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#20. Drive Safely, Sanely and Like a Gentleman - Die of Old Age

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#21. IATA be Glad You're Here

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#22. Mad Bad London

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#23. Honour the Tourist

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#24. Jai Philip

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#25. If the Vigil of My People be 1095 Days My Days are Numbered

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#26. Dr. Babel. I Presume

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#27. The Airline That Treats You Like a Minister

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#28. My Muse is Confused

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#29. I've Just Put up a Black

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#30. How? How Else

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#31. India - Thy Face could Laugh a Million Tourists - What Ails Thee?

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#32. Weeping Willow

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#33. City Fathers

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#34. I've Grown Accustomed to his face

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#35. Wouldn't It be Loverly If There was no P-Form

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#36. McMahon or ManMohan

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#37. I'm an Ordinary Man

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#38. Brussels Sprouts on My Way to London from April 5

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#39. Dear Santa

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#40. Nuts to the Common Market

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#41. Darwin had no Theory

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#42. Born Free

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#43. Father, Forgive Dick; for He Know not What He Doeth

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#44. Transcendental

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#45. Book Before You Leap This Year

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#46. Confucius Say

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#47. We Think We Like You

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#48. I'm a Plane Symbolton

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#49. Not With My Privy Pursers You Don't!

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#51. What Care I Where Based He be If He Doth not Slip With Me!

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#52. Our Tears of Joy-a Memory!

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#53. If Your Problem is MISA, I'll Handle Your VISA!

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#54. India - World Champions! Hu-TU-TU 1974

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#55. The Children's Aid Society

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#56. Pokaran Oh Pokaran

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#57. New York Non-Stop!

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#58. By George! No One Can Stop This Train

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#59. Wrong Number!

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#60. "I Cried Because I Had no Shoes Till I Saw a Child Who Had no Feet"

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#61. When You Dine at the Taj Park Your Car at the Centaur No Charge!

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#62. To My Countrymen

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#63. Australia's Population 15 Million

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#64. Collect Your Longings

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#65. Pulp, Reduce My Forests to Pulp

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#66. Destined to Die!

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#67. Fly your Flag

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#68. My Maiden to Singapore

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#69. I Minister to Three Capitals at the same time

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#70. My Asian Games are still on

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#71. I have the World's Best Arrangement to Japan

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#72. I'll Rush Ya. I'll Russia. On the Airbus A310.

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#73. India - World Champions ! HU - TU - TU 1974

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#74. Weeping Willow !

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#75. Why Should We Bother About Gold Medals at Munich When Ours are all from Dubai !

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#76. Naik Sahib, Drink to me only - not with thine eyes and I will pledge with WINE !

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#77. Our New Connection to Sharjah

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#78. This month look for We call it.

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#79. I'm warming up for the main event !

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#80. Now, Air-India Adds Sana'a to Its Gulf Network.

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#81. My Bangla Dash

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#82. 

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#83. This Month Look for First Class Quality. We call it Maharajah Class.

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#84. I am Turning Over a New Leaf

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#85. Earn More Bread by Flying your Meat !

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#86. Mauritius - Your Flight of Fancy

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#87. Don't Miss Mauritius in 1973

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#88. Visit an Old Flame

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#89. Bird of Peace

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#90. Look. India's Two National Birds.

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