PG Tips Bump and Go Mr. Shifter Pullback Car

PG Tips Bump and Go Mr. Shifter Pullback Car

Vintage 1996 (40th Anniversary) release 

“Shifting into top gear”

 

Not one of the Tipps family, but the removals man from the campaign’s most iconic advert ‘Mr Shifter’, from 1971, about a removals ape and his son moving a piano down some stairs, when the owner calls them for tea the son drops it, it ends with a truly terrible but utterly endearing old joke “dad, d’you know the piana’s on my foot?” “you hum It son, I’ll play it”.

Shifter absolutely belonged in this line, perhaps more than the Tipps family – who made the cut undoubtedly because they were the current mascots - that piano advert is considered classic TV and is undoubtedly the definitive PG Tips ad, he’s also a damn fine likeness, and who wouldn’t want a cockney ape in a bowler hat and moustache driving a bright red racing car?