Steel Pen Trade, 1930-1980. A record of the principal manufacturers. A description of manufacturing processes. An insight into selling practices

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Author(s) Charles, A A S
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1983
Pages 48pp; illus
Publisher D Leonhardt & Co
Place Published Highley

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Business profiles & biographies

Notes:

Short account structured: 1] 'Names of manufacturers in the 1930s' giving short profiles of c10 businesses; 2] 'Raw material'; 3] 'Manufacturing operations' in 17 sections; 4]. 'Sales'; 5] 'Different markets for pens'. Focuses especially on the period from c1900 and seen by the writer as a successor to Henry Boare, 'The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens', 1886