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    John Wright & Co Ltd, Essex Works

    Thank you, Carolina, I have gone onto your suggested link and via that to Radiation, which says that it is thought that the Regulo was invented in about 1915, which fits in with my father being with John Wright and Co. I would like to trace the original records regarding the invention of the...
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    John Wright & Co Ltd, Essex Works

    I am researching a book about my father, Sydney Pullinger (1899-1973). He worked at John Wright & Co Ltd from about 1915 to 1932. While there he invented a Regulo which was used in their gas cookers and in the subsequent take over by Radiation. Does anyone know where I might find the archives of...
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    Baskerville residential school/ hospital Yewcroft School

    I am also interested in Baskerville House, Harborne because my father, Sydney Pullinger (1899 - 1973) was an early patient/resident there in about 1909. He and an elder brother had been abandoned on the streets of Birmingham, where he contracted polio, or ricketts or possiby osteomyelitis -...
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