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Optical Information Council; The Hatton Press Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom
1969-05-28
paper
overall: 246 mm x 185 mm
Report summary and conclusions of a research project carried out by the OIC between June 1968 and April 1969 into mobile vision screening, drawing from material presented at a conference given at the Royal Festival Hall 30 April 1969. Printed on 40 pages with soft end covers, stapled, including pages of advertisements to front and rear. Articles include: The Optical Information Council (historical account), The Screening Project - How it Operates, Staff who have worked on the project, The first analysis of the results, Press conference at Festival Hall, eyes of the motorist, vision screening in industry, Ways and Means in Sight Care Education, Visual Standards of the Elderly. Featured advertisements, front: The Hadley Company Ltd (Wolsey frame with aluminium sides), M. Wiseman & Co Ltd (tinted lenses inc. Crookes, Rovis, Solbar, Athermal, Melray, Grey), Offenham Prescriptions Ltd, Michael Birch Designs Ltd/Stigmat Ltd/Harrogaste Optical Co. Ltd/Birchware Ltd, K. Blyth (Optics) Ltd, UK Optical Bausch & Lomb Ltd, Alexander Jerome and Co (Concorde toughened safety lenses), Alpha Lens Company Ltd (Orma All Protection Goggle), Combined Optical Industries Ltd (Igard Multilayer Safety Lenses), Chance-Pilkington, John Baird & Son (Opticians) Ltd. Back: Archer Elliott Ltd (Sunpol polarised prescription lenses), Empire Optical Works Ltd (Sferoflex joint), London Optical Company Ltd, The Igard Group (Archer-Elliott Ltd, London Optical Co Ltd, Raphael's Ltd, Stigmat Ltd), British American Optical Company Ltd (MAVIS Master Vision Screener), The J & H. Taylor Group (TG plastics lenses), Norville Optical Company Ltd, Optical Information Council (booklets, leaflets, posters), Victor Jay Optical Crafts Ltd (Vee-Jay), The Hatton Press Ltd, R. M. (Optics) Ltd (Claire frame), Paul Green Ltd (Philo frame with reinforced saddle bridge), Salvoc Ltd (Salvoc unsplinterable safety lenses).
2015.690
Gift of Mr Brian Mitchell, 2010