Categories 1900-1949 Food & Drink Bovril, 1926 Post author By Estelle Post date November 3, 2015 Portsmouth Evening News, 24th February 1926 Like some kind of beef-based electricity, Bovril puts BEEF into you. If anyone can tell me what “The Body-building power of Bovril has been proved by independent scientific investigation to be 10 to 20 times the amount taken,” I would be grateful. Portsmouth Evening News, 24th February 1926 Tweet Tags 1926, advert, Bovil, food