[PW] Re: Any British Wombats around?

[Sylvia Milne]

I am sending the entry in the online DMB to Donna offline because I'm not 
sure if sending it to Project Wombat is equivalent to making multiple 
copies.

Sylvia Milne

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:39 PM
Subject: [PW] Any British Wombats around?


>I am working on an article about Bakelite, especially in the making
> of radios.  It seems that the 1930s were a highpoint of this style,
> and I have had NO problem finding many on-line and book articles
> about the process.  Some of those radios evidently are quite
> collectable today, especially one brand-- EKCO.
>
> That's where I am stuck.  I know that EKCO was the company owned by
> British engineer Eric Kirkham Cole, who began manufacturing radios
> circa 1929 and his company became very important in the UK even into
> the 1960s, when I think it was finally sold.  What I cannot find is
> an obit that fills in some of his life for me.  I think he died in
> 1957.  I've checked every database to which I have access, but no
> obit-- although lots of mention of his company's cool radios, and
> assorted recollections from people who worked for EKCO at one time or
> other.  Might anyone have access to an obituary for Eric K.
> Cole?  Thanks much if you do have one!
>
> Donna L. Halper, Journalism Dept. Emerson College Boston MA
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