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Manufacturing Optician International Vol. 19 No 2.
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magazine
Manufacturing Optician; The Hatton Press Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
August 1966
paper
overall: 296 mm x 207 mm

Special issue of an optical journal including a retrospective report on the International Optical Trade Fair at Grosvenor House and feature articles on vision screening, the market in Ireland, Czechoslovakian gel contact lenses, surface curve measurement, the centenary of Nitsche & Gunther. A4 format, printed mainly in black and white with some colour on 64 pages, with soft end covers, stapled. Front cover features a graphic illustration of two spectacle frames overlaid. Includes various trade advertisements: M & B Plastics Ltd (Rhodoid / Rhoptix), Crockford-Norville Ltd (CN tools), Polaroid clip-ons, Michael Birch, American Optical Company (product list and list of international distributors), Paris Eyewear Ltd, Wernicke & Co KG (WECO 88 edger), The Hadley Company Ltd ('The Gossip', 'Kama', 'Lunora', 'Dusky' and 'Chiffon' frames), Empire Optical Works Ltd (Sferoflex non-slip eyewear), Autoflow Engineering Ltd, London Optical Company Ltd, Indo, Lozza, Metal Lux S.p.A. (vacuum coating plants), British Celanese Ltd (Rocel), Merx Optical Co Ltd, Willmotts Ltd, Coburn Manufacturing Co (generators), Optibel SA, Welby's Finer Frames Ltd ('Masque' frame), Borax and Chemicals Ltd, J. K. Smit & Sons Diamond Tools Ltd, Paul Green Limited ('Romana' frame), Optoplast Manufacturing Co. Ltd (PIMO side maker), Autoflow Engineering Ltd (Cerrirouge polishing powders), Worbla Ltd (celluloid frames from Switzerland), W. H. Shakespeare & Sons Ltd, Star Precision Ltd (binocular microscope slit lamp), J. Reynolds & Co Ltd (pinseal machine), A. Shaw & Sons (Diamonds) Ltd, G.T. Optics Limited, Holborn Optical Co Ltd, NuSyte Ltd (Hydraclens case), Radioptics Limited, Sankyosha Optical Co Ltd ('Prince' trial lenses), Novamatic Systems, Design Instruments Ltd, Anglo-American Optical Co (England) Ltd (nylon safety clip for frame display or dispensing), Centrex Inc., J. & S. Wylde Ltd, Rodway Optical Industries Ltd (The Double Diamond Edging machine), Bausch & Lomb Optical Co Limited, Curry & Paxton Ltd ('Curpax' ophthalmic equipment).

2015.163

Gift of Mr David Randall, FCOptom, 2013