Release from Drudgery

• Cannon, manufacturer of gas cookers, catalogue cover 1920s
• Cannon Challenge gas cooker, 1920s
• Cooker advertisement, County Express, Jan 9th 1937
• Bird's eye view of the Revo factory in Tipton in the 1920s
• Revo cooker assembly bay
• Revo electric fires and irons bay
• Revo stove enamelling bay
• Goblin Wizard electric vacuum 1930s (held at the Black Country Living Museum)
• Gas iron, Arden Hill Company (held at the Black Country Living Museum)
• Electric iron box, Cooperative Wholesale Society (held at the Black Country Living Museum)
• Singer sewing machine, 1870 (held at the Black Country Living Museum)

 

The labour saving devices of the 1920s and 1930s were a long way removed from the gadgetry available to us today, but were a great improvement on what had gone before.

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• Release from Drudgery

• Release from Drudgery