Reference
Z1886/2
Title
'The Davis Gazette' magazine of the Davis Gas Stove Company, Luton and London. Volume 1 No.2.
Date free text
Sep 1920
Production date
From: 1920 To: 1920
Scope and Content
Includes:
- Editorial notes.
- Congratulations to J T Turnbull on winning the district championship in the E.B.A. [English Bowling Association] competition (includes photograph).
- 'Counting the Cost' an article stressing the importance of accounting for materials, avoiding waste etc.
- Report of visit form the Davis Gas Stove Co. Ltd at Camberwell and Oxford Street, and Messrs H and C Davis & Co. of Clapham who were entertained by the Davis Athletic and Social Club. Tennis and bowls were played, and a party of visitors conducted round the works.
- 'Allotments'. An article by J B Riding, F.H.R.S. Includes report of the competition for the best garden on the Dallow Road allotments, won by Henry Lee.
- Marriages of staff members: Claude G Bailey of the cost department to Maude McGeorge (with photograph of C G Bailey), Robery Murray of the Diamond Foundary to Fanny Pottle, and William H Taylor to Ethel Dumpleton, who worked in the Core Shop for about 9 years and left in July.
- Diamond Foundry to join the National Farthing League and subscribe one farthing per week per person to Dr. Barnados's Homes.
- 'What is a Sportsman?' article by E A Berrisford (president of the Oxford University Boating Club 1919-1920).
- 'The Bright Side' article by Boyd Cable.
- 'Is the British Workman Democratic?' article by 'Inquisitive'.
- 'A Woman to Women' by Agnes M Miall.
- 'The Mons Drum' article repeated from the magazine of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment.
- Competition winners and cartoon competition.
- Davis Athletic and Social Club report; bowls, tennis, football and quoits. Includes photographs of winners: R Wallace, winner of Bowls Club single handed championship 1920, S R Allen and G Aird, winners of Bowls Club pairs championship 1920, Miss 'Dot' Brown, winner of C G Davis tennis cup 1920, and A Fryer, winner of C G Davis tennis cup 1920.
Level of description
item