The Design Review listed British products of ‘good design, functional efficiency and manufacture’ and was aimed at business visitors from the UK and overseas as a shop window on British manufacturing.
The printed copy of the Design Review was missing from the archive of the Festival. However, there is the hand written draft list of the selected products, alongside the companies which manufactured them, divided into four categories: recreation, household, work and transport and within these categories into some fifty subdivisions. (As will be apparent the numbering must have changed somewhat over the process of preparation). The list of names and products sing loudly of the vibrancy of manufacturing which had been given great prominence by a government desperate for exports and a degree of self-sufficiency.
Turning the draft pages it is possible to gain a flavour of what British manufacturing was offering to the waiting world. In the course of creating the Festival the categories changed a little, splitting work into engineering and scientific, producing five categories for display. The selected companies were included along with photographs and samples in five of seven arches under Waterloo bridge leading to the Festival Exhibition on London’s South Bank. The sixth arch was used as the entrance hall and the seventh to display British textiles. Around about half of the products listed were physically displayed in one or other of the exhibition spaces.
I set out below some of the companies and products taken from the handwritten draft with the objective of giving a sense of what was there.
Looking first at Recreation, where there were 5,604 products:
Section 1, Artists materials (29 products) included Winsor & Newton with easels and Rowney with artists brushes.
Section 7, Handicrafts (561) included individual makers with crafts ranging from woodwork, textiles, book binding, glass, pottery, ironwork, embroidery and fabric hand printing. Most are individual makers and there are a very few companies. Highland Home Industries offered the work of lacemakers in Orkney and Shetland. Societies for the Blind were represented with their handicrafts. Mappin & Webb are included with silver items and Oxford University Press with bookbinding. Rye Potteries were in this section as well as Section 46. Wilkinson Sword exhibited a parade sword and J Wippell a processional cross. Wreake Valley craftsmen connected with Leicester College of Art exhibited a lectern.
Section 8, Souvenirs (449) included Metal Box with a tobacco box, Walker and Hall with a tankard and Josiah Wedgewood with a commemorative mug.
Section 9, Musical instruments (45): Boosey & Hawkes caught my eye with their brass musical instruments as did John Taylor with church bells.
Section 16, Models (46): Bassett Lowke stood out with model locomotives, and International Model Aircraft (FROG) with model aero engines. They were distinct from
Section 17, Toys (708), where Airfix offered model tractors, Britains: farm tractors and toy soldiers, Chad Valley: dolls, and Elswick cycles: a tricycle. Other names to jump out were Lines Bros with a Tri-ang lighthouse, a Watney lorry, a crane & grab, a pedal trotting machine, a toy washing machine and try-to-spell bricks. Kiddicraft had interlocking building bricks, Meccano included a train set and Raleigh exhibited bicycles. Mettoy of Northampton had an ‘ocean liner’. Interestingly plastics company British Xylonite exhibited sports balls, dolls and bath toys. Diecasting Machine Tools of London N13 exhibited a cooker set, road-up set and pistols. The Educational Supply Association had the most exhibits second only to Lines Bros. My favourite has to be Wilmot Mansour & Co with a jet propelled model car and a model hydroplane.
Section 19, Sports Goods (607) had familiar names like Dunlop with tennis racquets and table tennis: De la rue with a bridge set; Slazengers with cricket batting gloves; Spalding with golf clubs; and Swaine Adeney Brigg with whips and crops. Avon Rubber, another tyre company, offered a rubber bowling green mat. BSA offered an air rifle. AC Cars exhibited a golf cart. James Gilbert offered rugby footballs and a good number fishing gear, rackets for various games and, of course, golf balls. The most striking element was the sheer number of manufacturers spread across the country. ICI offered ammunition and clay pigeons, John Jaques offered a shovehalfpenny board and Andrew Kay of Mauchline a curling stone and handle. Lilywhites offered skis and ski sticks, Lines Bros kindergarten equipment and Andrew Lusk an Antarctic sledge and box of rations
Section 20, Playground Equipment (56) included Wicksted and Gascoignes of Reading (also agricultural equipment – see below)
Section 23, Dress Textiles (671) This along with other textiles was absent from the hand written draft.
Section 25, Clothing (non-industrial) (172) included Aquascutum, Aristoc stockings, Ballantyne sportswear, Dunlop clothing and weatherproof, Wm. Hollins famous for Viyella with clothing for men, boys, girls and babies, Lyle and Scott woollens, I&R Morley woollens, Patons and Baldwins knitting patterns, Jaeger, Pringle, Shetland Hand Knitters and Wolsey underwear.
Section 27, Dress Accessories (773), with Barker, Dolcis, Churches, Clarks, Norvic and Saxone shoes, and, of course, handbags galore. Dunlop shoes and boots, Manfield, Lotus and Crocket & Jones shoes. Greengross diamond necklace, Pompador Products a silver necklace, E. Gandolfi ballet shoes and Liberty with squares and scarves
Section 33, Prams and Invalid Carriages (58) included Lines Brothers with baby carriages, Marmet with a baby carriage, Richards & Son, with both a perambulator and an invalid chair.
Section 35 Table and Bed Linen (218) featured Christie & Sons and Vantona which would later join with Viyella. Irish Linen Mills offered a breakfast table cloth
Section 37 Furnishing fabrics (668) – sadly this detail is missing from the draft.
Section 38 Carpets (197) included John Crossley Axminster carpets, Heal and Son with handwoven rugs, Jute Industries with a rug and Royal Wilton carpets.
Section 46 Handmade Ceramics (246) featured mainly individuals but also included Asprey with china poodles and Heal & Son with pottery figures, the Leach Pottery with Bernard Leach pieces, Pilkington Tiles with a fruit bowl and Rye Potteries which still has a page on their website about the Festival.[i]
Section 85 Industrial clothing (53) Dunlop safety boots, Lincoln Electric welders shield, .
Section 87 Industrial textiles (47) – sadly this detail is missing from the draft.
In the archive, each category is prefixed by the word ‘Team’, something I associate with contemporary television programmes i.e. Team Love it or Team List it. That is a digression, for we now come to Team Home, or Household and I can’t help wondering whether there was some balancing of exhibits between sections going on, but that too is a digression.
Household included 6,810 products and comprised:
Section 31, Personal Accessories (791) were strong on smoking with Asprey cigarette boxes and Alfred Dunhill pipes and lighters, but also Rolls Razor razors. Rolls Razer was later infamous for John Bloom and the washing machine scandal of which I wrote in chapter 18. EK Cole appears with a shaving mirror. Other personal accessories included Conway Stewart fountain pens, GB Kent and Kleen-e-zee Brushes, Injection Moulders with studs, North British Rubber Company with a vulcanite comb, Travelite weekend bag, Waterman fountain pen,
Section 39, Furniture (1,659) had Boulton & Paul with garden seats, Christie Tyler with an upholstered easy chair, Dartington Hall with a range of chairs, Dryad with cane furniture which they manufactured into the fifties, E Gomme Ltd with a gate legged table, famous later for G Plan. There is then Heal & Son and there is correspondence on file talking about the loan of a carpet and two stuffed toys. There is Hille & Co which manufactured chairs (at the time of writing on display in London’s Design Museum); there is Hygena, Ideal Upholstery with settee and easy chair and, interestingly, Mann Egerton, which I normally think of in relation to cars, with tables and an art desk. Meredew follows with Parker Knoll and then Roneo with steel office tables. Staples, which I remember for Ladderax, had a steel frame mattress support, Story & Cowith an easy chair (another manufacturer on display in the Design Museum) and Vickers Armstrong with an office table and desk.
Section 43, Domestic Accessories (423) included Bulpitt hot water bottles, later bought by BSR Swan Brand which also made the Goblin teasmade, Corby trouser press (I still have my father’s) Halex with a range of plastic crockery for children (Halex was a subsidiary of British Xylonite) Kent brushes and Injection Moulders Ltd with coat hangers. Permutta Plastics with Melamine beakers and an Arthur J Pepper condiment set.
Ceramics is broken down into section 46 already included in recreation and
Section 45, Factory Made Ceramics (709) with Susie Cooper Pottery (later sold to Wedgewood) with a bone china coffee set. Also Doulton & Co, Johnson Brothers (one of the makers of willow pattern crockery) Minton, Moorcroft and Josiah Wedgewood. Wood & Sons with Beryl crockery much loved of village halls, and the Worcester Royal Porcelain Company.
Section 47 Glass (279) with Chance Bros with butter dish and fruit set and including ashtrays for the Parker Pipe Company, Century Glass Works including two bowls, Stuart & Sons, the United Glass Bottle Manufacturers, Thomas Webb & Corbett and the Stourbridge Glass Co
Section 49, Powered Domestic Equipment (693): Aga Heat (invented by a Swede who set up in Britain) with a domestic iron, Ascot Gas Water Heaters, Belling & Co, E.K. Cole with an electric heater. EK Cole appears in a number of sections as well as radio which is where I would have expected them. I read it as diversification to use factory capacity. Duplex is there with an electric radiator, EMI is present with electric irons. English Electric had an electric cooker and refrigerator, Ever Ready a gas lighter, General Electric Company a portable Leitrim fire. Heatrae (part of Baxi) had an electric heater, Hotpoint a washing machine and electric boiling ring. Radiation Group had a Regulo controlled cooker, Tricity Cookers were there alongside Vactric with my childhood favourite a cylinder suction cleaner. Morphy-Richards with an electric floor scrubber, vacuum cleaner, iron and toaster.
Section 51, Hardware (873), has Bulpitt again with many pots and pans, Faulkners with mixing bowls, Hygena, again, with kitchen cabinets, Injection Moulders again, and Klee-ne-ze brush Co, Metal Box, the London Aluminium Co, Mappin & Webb, and Joseph Sankey (part of GKN) with a set of pans. I cross reference this lesser known activity of GKN in chapter 6.
Section 55, Building Fittings (692) Boulton & Paul poultry sheds echoing the drive to self-sufficiency, the Bristol Aeroplane Co (Housing) offered a corridor end panel with double doors as part of their prefab activity. I wrote in chapter 17 that a number of former shadow factories were being repurposed to build much needed prefabs. The ever diversified EK Cole offered a lavatory seat, En-Tout Cas (Tennis Courts) offered windows, GKN hooks, Ideal boilers, Ingersoll locks, Pilkington glass doors, Shanks & Co bathroom fittings, Crittall greenhouses but oddly not windows, Crittall having been a leader in metal windows in the interwar years. Shorts Bros and Harland offered a sanatorium unit.
Section 57, Lighting Fittings (691) included BTH, EK Cole’s Ensign, GEC, Linolite, Oldham with a torch, Pifco’s fountain pen torch, Siemens’s electric lamps, Thorn Electrical Industries with many items, Vidor’s torch, Oswald Hollman lampshade and table lamps.
The Work Team (Scientific and Engineering ) had 7,992 products
Section 5, Printing and Publishing (847) had George Allen & Unwin and many other publishers with book jackets, alongside advertising leaflets for many companies including Johnson Matthey, MK Electric, Murphy Radio, Metal Box, Pressed Steel , Shell Petroleum, Shell Chemicals. The printers, Spicers, were included with an echo from the Great Exhibition where they had been the printers of the catalogue. John Dickinson were included with account books and ledgers, Gordon Fraser with greeting cards, Jarrold & Son with the BBC Programme Prospectus and Charles Letts & Co with diaries.
Section 41, Office Machinery (115) included British Tabulating Machine Company reflecting the stage in development of computers, John Dickinson with paper, Gestetner with stencil duplicators, Imperial Typewriters, Kalamazoo stationery (brought to Redditch from the USA), Powers Samas the ‘computing’ arm of Vickers, Rexel and Roneo-Neopost.
Section 53, Tools (383) had BSA tools, Champion Scissors, the Brooke Tool Company (later owned by Rubery Owen), Kango Electric Hammers (bought by Dobson Park Industries), Rawplug company’s philplug, which delighted me as child since I had to spit to combine the fibres into a plug to take a screw, Plessey with a hand crimping tool, Spear & Jackson with a saw and Wolf Electric Tools, another childhood memory.
Section 67, Packaging (385), – British Cellanese with transparent cellular packs, Decca Record Co with record sleeves and Metal Box with a large variety of packaging.
Section 68, Industrial Accessories (88) included ICI with industrial safety equipment, Mann Egerton with an alkali degreasing tank,
Section 74, Weighing scales and equipment (52) included the Albion Foundry with household scales, W.T. Avery with pharmaceutical scales, counting scales and a personal weighing machine. Geo Salter & Co with a spring balance, baby weighing machine and cooking scales.
Section 75, Scientific instruments (1,013), included W.T. Avery with an electrodynamic balancing machine and testing machines; Cambridge instrument Co with measuring machines; EK Cole with a thickness gauge and radiation monitor; A.C Cossor’s oscillograph; Stanley Cox with a multiple treatment unit for physiotherapy; de Havilland Propellers with a vibration exciter, EMI’s oscilloscope and room thermostat; Ferranti’s ammeter, Elliott Bros’ pyrometer, AC/DC comparator and temperature regulator; Firth Brown with a hardness tester, GEC, George Kent’s water meter and Marconi’s infrared spectrometer.
Section 76, Clocks and Watches (101) Blick (UK marketing of US product), Gent (of Leicester taken over by Chloride in 1981), Smiths, Venner (became part of US bowling company AMF in 1970)
Section 77, Photographic Equipment (276) – British Acoustic Films, Johnsons of Hendon,
Section 79, Electronic Equipment (661) – Automatic Telephone and Electrical, Birmingham Sound Reproducers (BSA), Burndept, Cossor Marine Radio, EMI, Decca – flight plotter.
Section 59, Ventilating Equipment (124) includes Sturtevant Engineering alongside the more familiar Vent Axia.
Section 61, Combustion and Heating (399) , has the Aga Heat Company, Allied Iron Founders with heating stoves and open fires with boiler, Beeston Boiler Co and the much bigger Babcock and Wilcox; the Carron Co, a name from the early days of foundries, with a stove, Copperad convection heater, a Clarke Chapman pump, a Smith & Wellstood Esse cooker, Glow worm Boilers, International Combustion with an underfeed stoker, Radiation with a domestic boiler, Ruston & Hornsby with a steam boiler, John Thompson with a water tube boiler.
Section 63 Mechanical Engineering Plant (1,072) included the commercial vehicle giant, AEC, tool maker, William Asquith, Austin and Crompton Parkinson with a collaboration – an electric truck, David Brown Machine Tools, Brush Coach Work, the Butler Machine Tool Co, CAV, Churchill Machine Tools, Crossly Bros, Coventry Climax, Coventry Machine Tools, Davy and United Engineering with forging equipment and bending press, EMI factories with radio frequency heaters, English Electric with diesel alternator sets, Ferranti also with high frequency heating, Globe Pneumatic Engineering, Harland Engineering, Head Wrightson, Alfred Herbert, Holman Bros with compressors, RA Lister, Mirrlees Engineers, Murphy Radio’s dialectic welding machine, Plessey hydraulic industrial pump, Ransomes and Rapier with mobile cranes, Ruston & Hornsby Engines, G & J Weir with pumps, Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Co with petrol engines and an echo from Herbert Austin’s early career, and Worthington Simpson with self-priming pumps.
Section 65, Process Engineering Plant (601) with A F Gear choc-ice machine, Book Machinery Co with a bookbinding machine, British Northrop Loom Co with looms and a box check loom, Thomas Collins with bakers ovens, loaf making plant, The Creamery Package Manufacturing Co with ice-cream fruit feeder and ice-cream freezer, Davidson & Co with a tea preparing machine, Durafencing with a chain link fencing weaving machine, Platt bros with a spool Axminster carpet loom, Sugar Machinery Export Group with a cane milling plant, Vickers-Armstrong with a paint thinning and tinting mixer and toilet soap holder.
Section 69, Civil Engineering Plant (291) – Aveling Barford with dumper and road rollers, British Jeffrey Diamond with chain coal cutter, Holman Bros – compressed air engine, Metropolitan Vickers with a geared colliery winder, Frederick Parker with a stone crusher, Roby & Son with a tandem diesel roller, Stothert & Pitt concrete mixers.
Section 71, Chemical Engineering Plant (64), Doulton & Co absorbing tower, George Cohen with hydraulic moulding press, Alfa Larval centrifugal separators.
Section 73, Metallurgical Engineering Plant (168), British Insulated Callender Cables with spot welding equipment, BTH with spot welding controls, Davy & United Engineering with slabbing mills, temper mill and rolling mill; English Electric with the motor room of a strip mill; Head Wrightson with armour plate roller leveller, Metropolitan Vickers with arc welder, Reyrolle with welding generators.
Section 81, Electrical Engineering Plant (824) included Brook Motors, British Insulated Callender Cables, Crabtree, Crompton Parkinson, Parsons.
Section 83, Agricultural Equipment (528) Alpha Laval milking machine, Boulton & Paul pig feeder and farm gate, Blackstone combine harvester, Brecknell, Munro and Rogers, egg grading stamping and counting machine, Bristol tractors, British overhead irrigation, David Brown tractors, the Creamery Package Manufacturing company with pasteurising equipment, Ford tractor, Harry Ferguson Ltd with many products including tractors, ploughs, drills, manure spreader, potato planter. Gascoignes (Reading) milking machines, GEC sterilisers, Hayter grass cutter, Holman pneumatic chain saw, H. Leverton pea cutter and corn swather, Lister insecticide applicator, Markham Traction lime spreader, Marshall Sons tractor, combine harvester and tea machinery, Massey-Harris manure spreader, Nuffield Organisation tractors, Ransome, Sims and Jefferies plough for sugar cultivation and a lawn mower, Rubery-Owen hop picking machine, Thwaites Agricultural Engineering crop loader, sack hoist, post lifter. Wolseley Sheep Shearing Co electric shearing and clipping machine.
Transport had 4,070 products
Section 21, Racing and Pleasure Craft (331) had Wm. Beardmore with twin screw diesel yachts, John Brown steam turbine yacht, Wm Denny auxiliary three mast schooner, Fairey Marine, Falmouth Boat Construction, Granta Folding Boats, E.H. Phelps with a racing sculler, pair, four and eight, South Devon Boatbuilders, Sussex Shipbuilding, and Vospers, Yarrow and Thornycroft.
Section 89 firefighting equipment (52) AEC turntable ladder, Barrow Hepburn fireman’s safety belt, Commer fire engine, Dennis Bros fire engine and foam tender, Godiva Fire Engine – trailer pumps,
Section 91 aircraft (217) Aeroplastics with an aircraft toilet seat, Airspeed with a civil airliner, Alvis with a medium HP piston engine, Armstrong Siddeley Motors with a turbo prop engine, Armstrong Whitworth with a transport aircraft, Bristol Aeroplane Company with a passenger aircraft, British Thomson Houston with aircraft magnetos, De Havilland Aircraft Co with a jet airliner, Dowty Equipment with an hydraulic pump, English Electric with a rotary hydraulic valve activator, GEC with an aircraft cabin light, Girling with an aircraft brake, Handley Page with a passenger aircraft, Rolls-Royce with a turbo jet engine, Joseph Sankey with a tail pipe unit for a jet engine, Saunders Roe with a flying boat, Short Bros & Harland with an amphibious flying boat and Vickers-Armstrong with aircraft seats.
Section 93 aircraft ground equipment (31) Flight Refuelling with a centrifugal fuel pump, Pyrene Company with a water fire extinguisher, Reynolds tube with an aircraft engine servicing stand.
Section 95 ships (557) Barclay Curle with passenger liners, John Brown & Co with passenger liners and a train ferry motor ship, Cammell Laird with cross channel passenger steamers, Clarke Chapman with a steam cargo winch, WH Dorman with marine diesel engines, Furness Shipbuilding with tankers, Harland & Wolff with refrigerated cargo liners and a whale oil factory ship, RW Hawthorn Leslie with oil tankers, Leyland Motors with marine diesel engine and RA Lister with marine oil engines, Mactaggart Scott with steering gear, Manganese Bronze with propellers, Short Brothers with cargo steamers, Siebe Gorman with a diving bell and other diving equipment, Stothert & Pitt with windlass and warping capstan gear, Swan, Hunter and Wigram Richardson with oil tankers and cable laying ships and Vickers-Armstrong with twin screw turbine passenger liner.
Section 99 small craft (122) M.W. Blackmore customs craft, Brooke Marine tug, Howard & Dennis waterweed cutting launch, Merryweather & Sons fireboat, Charles Pearson ships lifeboat, John Thornycroft tug and inspection launches, Viking Marine ships lifeboat,
Section 101 road vehicles (1,372) AC Cars with an open sports car, AEC with chassis for single and double decker buses, coaches, tankers and many more, Albion Motors bus chassis, Armstrong Siddeley salon car, Austin Motor Company with a London metropolitan taxi cab chassis and a mobile cinema chassis, Avon India Rubber tyres, Bentley Motors drophead coupe chassis, Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co with a motor omnibus, David Brown tractors, Commer Cars mobile Xray unit, Cooper Car Co racing car, Crossley Motors double deck electric trolley bus, Daimler ambulance and limousine, Dennis Motors Pantechnicon chassis, Dunlop cycle saddle, Ever Ready cycle lamp, Foden airline coach chassis, Ford Motor Company refuse loader, estate and saloon cars, Guy Motors luxury coach, Donald Healey Motor Co saloon car, Hillman Cars coupe, Humber Ltd limousine, Jaguar Cars fixed head coupe, Jensen pantechnicon, Jowett Jupiter chassis, Karrier articulated low loading freighter, Lagonda Ltd cars, Lancaster Electric vehicle, Lanchester Motor Co Ltd saloon car, Lansing Bagnall electric delivery vehicle, Lea Francis cars, Leyland Motors mobile workshop van, Maudsley Motor Co platform lorry chassis, Metropolitan Cammell trolley bus, Morris Motors radio recording body for Radio Luxembourg and Morris Oxford, H.J. Mulliner sports car body, Norton Motor cycle, Pashley motor ice cream cycle, Riley Motors drophead coupe, Rolls-Royce salon chassis, Rootes BOAC coach, Rover gas turbine car, Rudge Whitworth bicycle, Saunders Roe omnibus body, Scammell heavy duty dump truck, Seddon Motors passenger service vehicle, Singer Motors four seater roadster, Shell Mex and BP refuelling tanker, Standard Motors estate car, Sunbeam Talbot motor cars, Sunbeam (also cycle and trolleybus), Thornycroft end tipper for highway maintenance, Triumph Motors (1945) roadster, Vanden Plas limousine, Vauxhall probably the biggest entry including lightweight churn carrying platform body and chassis for furniture van.
Section 102 road vehicles accessories (181) Avon Rubber tyres, CAV dynamo, Champion spark plugs, Christie-Tyler coach seats, Ferodo brake and clutch linings, Girling hydraulic brakes, Metropolitan-Vickers trolly bus motor, Tilling Stevens passenger vehicle radiator, Wilmot Breedon steering wheel.
Section 104 garage equipment (134) Black & Decker valve seat grinding kit, Dunlop Rubber Company tyre balancing machine, Laycock Engineering cash wash plant, Romac Industries portable air compressor unit, Tecalemit lubricating equipment and garage lifts and Wolf Electric Tools heavy duty drills and grinders.
Section 105 street furniture (148) Edison Swan street lighting lantern, Elliott Brothers lighting controller, London Transport Executive bus stop sign, Metropolitan Gas Meters controller for gas lighting, Siemens Electric Lighting fluorescent street lamps, Stanton Iron Works lighting columns,
Section 107, Railways (520), A.C. Cars Southend Pier electric train, Beyer Peacock locomotive, British Railways Executive insulated fish van (there were exhibits from each region), BTH diesel electric shunting locomotive, Crompton Parkinson electric motor, Davey Paxman diesel locomotive, English Electric diesel electric shunting locomotive for Australian Iron and Steel Co, Head Wrightson tipping wagon, Robert Hudson hopper wagon, London Transport Executive tube rolling stock, Metropolitan Cammell Wagon company cement wagon, discharge coal hopper, bogie drop sided wagon, Metropolitan-Vickers electric locomotive, gas turbine electric locomotive, North British Locomotive diesel mechanical locomotive steam, Ransomes & Rapier heavy breakdown crane, Ricardo & Co diesel locomotive, Ruston & Hornsby diesel shunting locomotive, heavy narrow gauge diesel locomotive, Siemens & General Electric Railway Signal company long range colour light signal, DC interlocking relay, Robert Stephenson & Co steam locomotive, Stothert & Pitt breakdown crane and Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company signalling control panel and illuminated track diagram.
Section 109 catering and hotel equipment (405) Bulpitt & Son electrically heated urn, Cona Coffee percolator, Esse Cooking Company steam jacketed boiling pan, GEC cooking range, Hoover Limited glass washing machine, G.W. Pearce braising pan, Pressed Steel Co refrigerator, Radiant Heating gas heated salamander, Radiation fish frying range, vegetable steamer, pastry oven, Simplex unit ranges, Stainless Steel Sink Company
[i] https://www.ryepottery.co.uk/product/rye-pottery-at-the-1951-festival-of-britain/
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