01-12-2019, 05:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-12-2019, 07:01 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
Unfortunately, the photographs from the Raglan publicity department are undated - and the only known information is that Raglan moved into what was probably an unused silk-weaving mill "...in the early 1950s" and first catalogue for the Mk.2 Little John lathe was stamped June, 1953. Also, as the Company had a taken the trouble to put up some rather fine lettering on the facade, one might assume that the picture was taken in early 1953. I had that minor down as an "Oxford" - I've only to see one of those to remember spending a whole hot summer's day going mad with the T-Cut and that dreadfully-hard-to-apply-and-polish Simonize wax on a neighbour's Oxford - and all for £0 : 12s : 0d pocket money (but enough to get away with Sarah for a night at the Star cinema, ice creams, fish and chips and a "walk" in the park...