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Manufacturing Optician Vol 8 (7)
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journal
Manufacturing Optician; The Hatton Press Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
April 1955
paper
overall: 245 mm x 185 mm

Issue of 'Manufacturing Optician' featuring a report on the 1955 Harrogate (Northern) Optical Congress trade show - includes picture account featuring C. E. Dunn, O. P. Raphael, Stanley Newbold, George Rodway, Percy Lever, A. P. Brown, Leslie Carlton, J. J. Gautrey, Frank Butterworth. Printed in black and white with partially coloured advertising with soft end covers, stapled. Features 'British Achievements' editorial, 'Too many British frame styles?', obituary of Sir Alexander Fleming, 'New Australian Import Restrictions', ICOI Tea Show in Guildford. Includes various trade advertisements to front: The Hadley Company Ltd (Trulyne Junior frames), Erinoid Limited (cellulose acetate for the optical trade), Societe des Lunetiers (The Alize Two Tone frame), British Celanese Ltd (Celastoid optical sheeting), Alfred Mills Optical Equipment Ltd (Amyl-Luxe diamond charged automatic edging machine), Associated Lead Manufacturers Ltd (Zedox-B white lens polish - 'Zirconia'), Autoflow Engineering Ltd (electric blocker / The I22 Tecnaphot Rx Toric Generator), Holborn Optical Co Ltd, The Carborundum Company Ltd (diamond segmental wheels), British American Optical Co Ltd (Isophane lenses). Centre spread: The Wiseman Organisation (The Mantor NHS and Mantor P.P. frame). To rear: M. Wiseman & Company Ltd (Bivue), Soft-Lite Lens Company Ltd, Trident Optical Company Ltd (Chigwell Two Tone frame), Neven Impregnated Diamond Products Ltd, Willmotts Ltd, Merx Optical Co Ltd (Glenmont frame), George Rodway Ltd, Neuburger Products Ltd (joints), Adcock & Shipley Ltd (toric lens grinding machine), Dunbar & Cook Ltd (machinery tools), Newbold & Bulford Ltd, F. W. Ramsey (jobbing trays), ECISA Co Inc (Swiss spectacles manufacturers - 'Sunapplic', 'Elast-Flex' and 'Sun-Stop'), British American Optical Co Ltd (Siremont frame), United Kingdom Optical Co Ltd (Colette Two Tone and Colette D'Or ladies frames).

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Gift of Mr David Randall, FCOptom, 2013