Terrywoodenpic
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Soon after the end of WW2 when oranges came into the shops again, my mother produced one of these”Instant Juicers” out of her cupboard. For the next few years up to the time I left home It squeezed my morning orange juice.
I did not see one again till the other day, when I bid for one on Ebay. The Aluminium body was perfect but the base was riddled with woodworm. Which I have since replace with a new white ash one.
I looked into the history of these things and discovered that the Patentee lived within a few hundred yards of my Grand father, and was a director of the producer. They were the leading manufacturer of very large aluminium food, oil and chemical storage vessels, but nothing else anything like this Juice press.
The one I found was marked with patent applied for and a registered design number, so I was able to trace the Patent. The patent was applied for in February 1933 and granted in April1934 to Ernest Stanley of the Aluminium Plant and Vessel co Ltd. ( still a very large company.)
From this it is clear that mine was made between those two dates probably in 1933 Two years before I was born so will be a rare survivor of some 82years. As domestic Items were not made in aluminium during the war and I can not trace any made after the war. It is surprising that so many surface on Ebay.
I did not see one again till the other day, when I bid for one on Ebay. The Aluminium body was perfect but the base was riddled with woodworm. Which I have since replace with a new white ash one.
I looked into the history of these things and discovered that the Patentee lived within a few hundred yards of my Grand father, and was a director of the producer. They were the leading manufacturer of very large aluminium food, oil and chemical storage vessels, but nothing else anything like this Juice press.
The one I found was marked with patent applied for and a registered design number, so I was able to trace the Patent. The patent was applied for in February 1933 and granted in April1934 to Ernest Stanley of the Aluminium Plant and Vessel co Ltd. ( still a very large company.)
From this it is clear that mine was made between those two dates probably in 1933 Two years before I was born so will be a rare survivor of some 82years. As domestic Items were not made in aluminium during the war and I can not trace any made after the war. It is surprising that so many surface on Ebay.
