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Manufacturing Optician; The Hatton Press Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
March 1960
paper
overall: 243 mm x 185 mm
Issue of 'Manufacturing Optician' featuring reports on the growth of plastics in optics, the Supplementary Ophthalmic Services of the NHS, measurement of spectacles (new British Standard), the 1960 Southport Northern Optical Congress in pictures, the Better Vision Institute (USA) Pages 223-226 missing. Includes various trade advertisements to front cover: The 'Lady-in-Mink' supra frame by Michael Birch. To front: Hadley Company Ltd (Tenora frames), British Celanese Ltd (Celastoid acetate sheet), Autoflow Engineering Ltd, BX Plastics Ltd, M & B Plastics Ltd (Rhodoid), Chance-Pilkington Optical Works, Societe des Lunetiers (SL projection focimeter), Polarizers (UK) Ltd (Polaroid sunglasses), A. Shaw & Son (Diamonds) Ltd (diamond tools), BAO (Tillyer executive bifocal lens / 'Safari' sunglasses); to centre: M. Wiseman & Co. Ltd (Flax case covering / 'Kurova' solid bifocal lens); to rear: Adcock & Shipley Ltd (toric lens grinders), Pad Specs ltd (Electro-V-Matic glazing machine), Associated Lead Manufacturers Ltd (Zedox-B lens polish), James Hetley & Co. Ltd (lens blanks), Merx (the 'Leigh' frame for men), Impregnated Diamond Products Ltd (diamond wheels), Willmotts Ltd (Avonlite cases), Trident Optical Company Ltd ('Inga' frame for Regulation 12 eyeshape), BAO ('Nocturne' frame), UKO B&L ('Pegasus' frame) for Regulation 12 eyeshape).
2015.162
Gift of Mr David Randall, FCOptom, 2013