Reference
Z1886/4
Title
'The Davis Gazette' magazine of the Davis Gas Stove Company, Luton and London. Volume 1 No. 4.
Date free text
Nov 1920
Production date
From: 1920 To: 1920
Scope and Content
Includes:
- Editorial notes; reference to coal strike.
- Messages from directors H Addis-Price and Harold N Davis.
- Report of smoking concert and presentation of prizes, Includes list of prize winners and singers at the concert. A collection for St. Dunstan's raised £3 0s 1d.
- Death of Edie May Chilton, aged 12, daughter of O F Chilton, who left the Davis Gas Stove Company in May 1920 to take up an appontment in Canada.
- 'Restriction of output' by Charles Wickstead. Article re-printed (with permission) from 'The Machine Tool Review'
- Cartoon by Mr Humm in connection with competition in previous issue.
- 'A Woman to Women' by Agnes M Miall.
- Wedding Bells: marriages of staff members:
Sydney Webb to Hettie Elwood (with photograph of H Elwood),
George Murray Pedder of the Diamond Foundry invouce office, to Ivy Elizabeth Baker (with photograph of G M Pedder), Arthur Fensome to Dorothy Price, both employees of the Davis Gas Stove Company (with photographs of each)
William Henry Grover (with photograph) to Lilian Ruffell
- 'We Would Like to Know' questions relating to internal issues and jokes within the company.
- Allotments by J B Riding F.R.H.S
- Cartoon
- Davis Athletic and Social Club report; cricket, hockey, tennis, football and quoits
- Correspondence: reminiscence about a cricket match in 1912 between teams put together by Mr Cyril Davis and Mr Harold Davis; response to the letter in the previous issue.
Level of description
item