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The British Optician Special Overseas Edition
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
book
The Hatton Press Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
June 1944
paper
overall: 265 mm x 212 mm

One-off journal issue (Special overseas edition) of 'The Optician' showcasing British optical goods and inviting expressions of interest for post-war exports. Printed in black and white with colour embellishments. Includes articles on British optical manufacturers in wartime (featuring photographs of a British Army Mobile Ophthalmic Unit), a British optometrist's impression of practice in wartime, messages of goodwill to overseas friends from H. A. Lambert (British AO Co Ltd), Stanley Newbold, E. C. Sherren (United Kingdom Optical Co Ltd), an article on the British optical glass industry, another on the ophthalmic instrument industry, an article on the advent of plastic lenses, another on British plastics and wartime frames, short historical feature on 'A Golden Age of English Optics' (1603-1714), article on the 'renaissance' in metal stock manufacture, article on optical books for the world's students, advertorial on protective glasses made by Chance Brothers Ltd, and various trade advertisements for The Hadley Company Ltd, Lenton & Rusby Ltd, Thos Styring & Son Limited, J. & R. Fleming Ltd (featuring photographs of wartime factory production), M. Wiseman & Co Ltd, Walter Jameson Ltd (the Jameson Circumfluent Joint), Ellis Optical Company, Levers Optical Company Ltd, Allied Instrument Manufacturers Ltd (inc. Mackie Slit Lamp and rotating drum test type), Combined Optical Industries Ltd (Igard plastic lenses), C. Davis Keeler Ltd (ophthalmoscopes and retinoscopes), Willmotts, International Optical Company Ltd (INOP plastic spectacle frames), Wheway Optical Co Ltd, Gowllands Ltd, Camden Optical Co Ltd ('Victorplas' synthetic shell frame), Ralph Mason & Co (synthetic shell frames), Alfred Mills (Opticians) Ltd, Short & Mason Ltd, Casco Ltd, The Hatton Press Ltd, United Kingdom Optical Co Ltd, British AO Co Ltd.


2016.877

Gift of Mr David Randall, FCOptom, 2016



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