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    Lucas Engineering School Great Hampton Street

    I have a miniature approximate replica of a Tom Bowling lamp that is engraved 'To our Old Skipper from Lucas Engineering School' December 1962. I presume it's a retirement gift and judging by the superb quality he must have been a well loved senior figure at the school. Does anyone know who he...
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    This is the Hopkinson Tinplate Factory alright. If you are interested in what was made in the factory you now work in you need to take look at the book 'Victorian Tinware' by Ralph Cox published in 1970. The book has lots of pages illustrating their wares from an original catalogue, but...
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