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19th Mar 2018, 5:56 pm | #1 |
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WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
A friend of mine rescued a box of these a few years ago from a shop that had closed down.
Quite interesting due to age and also the special wrapping and notes attached to them urging people to salvage the wrapping for the war effort. The bulbs do work too. |
19th Mar 2018, 6:20 pm | #2 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
Related : somewhere I have a Cossor radio valve box with 'Do not burn this carton, save it for your salvage collector' (or something similar) printed on one of the flaps.
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19th Mar 2018, 9:54 pm | #3 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
Early post war 'Practical Wireless' also has the same advice. J.
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20th Mar 2018, 12:45 am | #4 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
Most paper and wood products were imported, hence the need for recycling. I have some wartime copies of wireless world where the ads have been removed, probably for recycling.)
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20th Mar 2018, 1:47 am | #5 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
I would think they would urge you to retain the brass base as well as the packaging. If it wasn't damaged it could be used again for new lamps.
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20th Mar 2018, 11:16 am | #6 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
It's always fascinating to find historical markers like this- the Forestry Commission had been set up as a result of the enormous usage of domestic timber in WW1, but despite vast acquisition and planting between the wars, the rapid usage and depletion during WW2 surprised the planners, leading to further investment and afforestation post-war. Things we lose sight of with international trade shifting the chainsaws to other peoples' forests....
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20th Mar 2018, 12:05 pm | #7 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
I have somewhere a booklet issued to store keepers in the American armed forces during the last war.
"Correct packing of electrical and electronic goods in wartime" It notes that whilst card and paper can be recycled, that attention should be given to use as packing materials, goods that are directly useful in themselves. Examples included radio tubes, place in military socks. delicate or sensitive equipment, wrap in blankets. High voltage glass or ceramic insulators, place in strong boxes surrounded by loose grain. bulky but delicate equipment, place in purpose made wooden cases, surrounded by sacks of grain. "socks, other uniform, blankets, and grain are valuable materials of war, and if used to protect other supplies in transit, give two uses for the price of one" |
20th Mar 2018, 12:22 pm | #8 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
I recall reading in an issue of New Scientist many years ago that over 90% of wartime replacement CRTs were found to be unserviceable because of transit damage resulting from inadequate packaging and that this had lead to a major post-war reappraisal of the approach to packaging delicate items generally. That "over 90%" figure took me aback, and still does, but it's easy to believe that a high proportion were damaged simply from forum members' experience re. oscilloscopes and couriers!
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20th Mar 2018, 5:47 pm | #9 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
Years ago, I bought a German war-surplus CRT, which was packed in moulded inserts made of foam rubber mixed with human hair, the origin of which gave pause for thought.
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20th Mar 2018, 6:59 pm | #10 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
Paper was in very short supply during WW2. I have several books from the period which say they are made to the paper utility standard or something similar. I also remember my mother saying that everyone saved all paper including bus tickets.
Shellac was also in short supply. I have seen public information films urging people to return records for recycling.
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20th Mar 2018, 9:08 pm | #11 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
Maybe they wanted the paper to recycle as post war cards like this one I found in the back of a set.
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20th Mar 2018, 9:41 pm | #12 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
I believe it was illegal to dispose of writing paper of which only one side had been used.
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20th Mar 2018, 9:50 pm | #13 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
We were told to use both sides of the paper in school books during the 1950s too. Probably a hangover from WWII.
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20th Mar 2018, 10:18 pm | #14 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
How much of WW2 Electronic surplus was recycled repurposed after the war, so it goes around in a circle. recycle, repurpose.
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21st Mar 2018, 12:34 pm | #15 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
The teacher at my infant school said that when she was a pupil she had to use each side of a piece of paper twice with the second lot of writing being at right angles to the first.
She was in her seventies and had been brought out of retirement because few teachers were trained during WW2 and they needed someone to teach baby boomers. Her own education must have taken place in the late 19th century.
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21st Mar 2018, 12:47 pm | #16 |
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Re: WW2 Lightbulbs with recycling notes
'crossed and recrossed the page'? - Agatha Christie.
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