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At the start of the 1980s (and I think that a Look In annual referred to it as well, as their strips appeared in the magazine at the time), the Smurfs appeared in one, or a series of adverts for a petrol station company - I believe it is one which is no longer around. The 1978 Father Abraham song tune could be heard in the adverts, I think, and they sounded the same as they did in the song. I heard an audio version on the TV Cream website around 20 years ago.
They may have been originally seen in the Netherlands, and therefore it was a Dutch company, I believe which later no longer traded in Great Britain a la C&A. One cannot quite equate cartoon characters such as the Smurfs with a petrol station unless they were both from the same country, (even if some of them sold them in the shop). Shell, BP, Esso, (or any other company that you can type on a calculator upside down or with a mirror), fits in. I think it was called National something or other, but cannot be too sure. They disappeared during the course of the 1980s.
I am certain that one or two people on here can remember the name of that company?
They may have been originally seen in the Netherlands, and therefore it was a Dutch company, I believe which later no longer traded in Great Britain a la C&A. One cannot quite equate cartoon characters such as the Smurfs with a petrol station unless they were both from the same country, (even if some of them sold them in the shop). Shell, BP, Esso, (or any other company that you can type on a calculator upside down or with a mirror), fits in. I think it was called National something or other, but cannot be too sure. They disappeared during the course of the 1980s.
I am certain that one or two people on here can remember the name of that company?
Although I thought it was the late 70s when you got "Service with a Smurf"?
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