'Have you a trumpet handy?' - 50 years of Accles and Pollock tubes, Oldbury, 1949 - Pel and tubular furniture
An interesting take on the 50th anniversary of A&P from a whimsical book produced by the company in 1949 called 'Have you a trumpet handy?'. Annoyingly no artist is shown although the book was produced for A&P by Waddicor and printed at the County Press, Bradford, by Lund, Humphries.
Accles & Pollock, although founded in 1901, have earlier origins and were originally based in Holford Mill, Perry Barr, Birmingham before moving to Oldbury in 1902. They became famous for manufacturing and manipulating tubes including a tubular steel aircraft in 1910 and more successfully in the fields of stainless steel tubes and bike frame tubes. They also made precious tubes, down to the smallest sizes of hypodermic needles at .005 inches. In 1919 they became part of Tube Investments, the Birmingham based engineering combine. A&P were sold off in 1996 as TI foundered.
One of TI's companies that was closely associated with A&P was Pel Furniture a company's whose designs perfectly matched the then contemporary modern look in items such as chairs and furniture. That alongside those stacking chairs my schools in West Bromwich were full of (along with Kingfisher Desks!). The staircase balustrades are also very contemprary - looks like granolithic compound alongside the stainless steel.
'Have you a trumpet handy?' - 50 years of Accles and Pollock tubes, Oldbury, 1949 - Pel and tubular furniture
An interesting take on the 50th anniversary of A&P from a whimsical book produced by the company in 1949 called 'Have you a trumpet handy?'. Annoyingly no artist is shown although the book was produced for A&P by Waddicor and printed at the County Press, Bradford, by Lund, Humphries.
Accles & Pollock, although founded in 1901, have earlier origins and were originally based in Holford Mill, Perry Barr, Birmingham before moving to Oldbury in 1902. They became famous for manufacturing and manipulating tubes including a tubular steel aircraft in 1910 and more successfully in the fields of stainless steel tubes and bike frame tubes. They also made precious tubes, down to the smallest sizes of hypodermic needles at .005 inches. In 1919 they became part of Tube Investments, the Birmingham based engineering combine. A&P were sold off in 1996 as TI foundered.
One of TI's companies that was closely associated with A&P was Pel Furniture a company's whose designs perfectly matched the then contemporary modern look in items such as chairs and furniture. That alongside those stacking chairs my schools in West Bromwich were full of (along with Kingfisher Desks!). The staircase balustrades are also very contemprary - looks like granolithic compound alongside the stainless steel.