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Racing car branded with the JPS logo on the front and sides. "TISSOT // QUARTZ // 11" appears on the car. Workers are standing in the grounds of the No. 3 Factory dispatch docks looking at the car.

John Player & Sons sponsored the Formula One…

View of Horizon gatehouse, with a car waiting for the barrier to be lifted.

Photograph showing a factory floor production line of 'Gold Leaf' tobacco boxes. A male supervisor can be seen inspecting the women at work.

Horizon drawing office, with staff working.

Photograph showing Superkings and Embassy lorries outside the Horizon factory depot.

Four women queue at window titled 'Cash Sales' at Horizon.

The showroom housed products that could be collected through coupons available in packets of Player's cigarettes. The Nottingham showroom was on Hartley Road in Radford.

The photograph shows the showroom at Christmas time.

Every year up until the mid-1970s, John Player & Sons gave its employees a money bonus in March. To mark this, a dance was thrown at the Astoria dancehall in Nottingham (this later became the Sherwood Rooms and is now Ocean nightclub).

This…

An aerial photography of the Horizon factory and its surrounds. Produced by Sealand Aerial Photography.

An aerial photography of the Horizon factory and its surrounds. Produced by Sealand Aerial Photography.