Reference
Z1886/5
Title
'The Davis Gazette' magazine of the Davis Gas Stove Company, Luton and London. Volume 1 No. 5.
Date free text
Dec 1920
Production date
From: 1920 To: 1920
Scope and Content
Includes:
- Editorial notes
- Message from director C G Davis.
- Congratulations to A W Banks of the Technical Department on his success in the municipal election at Dunstable (includes photograph).
- 'Playing the Game' article by G. Harold Woolley VC, now a master at Rugby School
- Poems 'Success' and 'Maggie' by Albert W Banks
- Report of the death of John Thomas Wilmin May, aged 9 months, the son of J May who works in the sheet iron shop
- 'James Watt' biography published by courtsey of the proprietors of 'A.G.E'
- Wedding Bells: marriages of staff members:
George Frederick Munn of the Diamond Foundry to Bertha Clark (with photograph of GF Munn taken when on active service).
Edward Child Hollingsworth, chief clerk in the pay department, to Charlotte Florence Lake, also on staff of the pay department.
- Visit of 20 boys from Beech Hill School to the Diamond Foundry
- Collection on behalf of Dr. Barnardo's Homes raised £4
- 'The Essence of Salesmanship
- 'A Woman to Women' by Agnes M Miall.
- Allotments by J B Riding F.R.H.S
- Cartoon
- 'The Letters of Maurice' humorous epistle.
- 'We Would Like to Know' questions relating to internal issues and jokes within the company.
- Davis Athletic and Social Club report; report of smoking concert (collection for St Dunstans Blind Association raised 16s 6d), football, quoits, hockey.
- 'Tell Me' poem
Level of description
item