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It's a merry Christmas from the old M.E.B. - the Midlands Electricity Board based at Mucklows Hill just on the edge of Birmingham and the nationalised concern whose supply and distribution area covered much of Central England. The leaflet gives details of various Christmas recipes to prepare in an electric cooker and suggests that, as a present to yourself, why not get an electric cooker? I suppose suggesting you bought one as a present for someone else might be seen as being over generous.
A rather jolly advert or poster design for the Electrical Development Association that appeared in the handbook to the 1960 Food Fair at London's Olympia. The EDA had been formed in the 1920s to act as an agency to promote the use of electricity by the then numerous players in the industry; it continued after nationalisation but, following the 1957 reorganisation of the industry, it was finally subsumed into the Electricity Council in 1966 to become their Marketing Department.
The cheery and warm child, with a fresh piece of cake, is by noted poster designer, artist and teacher Tom Eckersley (1914 - 1997).
A tiny booklet (12cm x 7cm) but well printed and showing the range of 'Pyramid Brand' aluminium ware and utensils for the kitchen, especially with electric cookers. It this brings together two 'new' technologies - the introduction of alumium and the more widespread use of electricity for cooking that was being promoted in the 1930s.
Although the brand is promoted oddly there is no manufacturer shown - however I suspect it is the Birmingham company Samuel Groves & Co who I think owned this trademark. If it is Groves they are still in business, in Birmingham, and still produce cooking utensils and other metalware products. Founded in 1817 they were certainly producing aluminium goods by the 1920s and indeed were important during WW2 as producers of aluminium kitchen equipment for the armed forces.
The only company name that does appear here is of the retail supplier who it would appear handed this booklet out. They are the once famous Manchester concern of Baxendale & Co., whose warehouses, offices and showrooms I recall in the Miller St area of the city having been reconstructed following almost complete destruction in the Manchester Blitz. Indeed my mother can recall the glow in t e sky across the city when Baxendale's, and their paint stores, burnt.
The very period cover is unusually attributable - signed C or G R Day.
A tiny booklet (12cm x 7cm) but well printed and showing the range of 'Pyramid Brand' aluminium ware and utensils for the kitchen, especially with electric cookers. It this brings together two 'new' technologies - the introduction of alumium and the more widespread use of electricity for cooking that was being promoted in the 1930s.
Although the brand is promoted oddly there is no manufacturer shown - however I suspect it is the Birmingham company Samuel Groves & Co who I think owned this trademark. If it is Groves they are still in business, in Birmingham, and still produce cooking utensils and other metalware products. Founded in 1817 they were certainly producing aluminium goods by the 1920s and indeed were important during WW2 as producers of aluminium kitchen equipment for the armed forces.
The only company name that does appear here is of the retail supplier who it would appear handed this booklet out. They are the once famous Manchester concern of Baxendale & Co., whose warehouses, offices and showrooms I recall in the Miller St area of the city having been reconstructed following almost complete destruction in the Manchester Blitz. Indeed my mother can recall the glow in t e sky across the city when Baxendale's, and their paint stores, burnt.
The very period cover is unusually attributable - signed C or G R Day.
A study released earlier this year by Stanford University found that even when shut off, gas stoves still leak small amounts of methane gas. The research has led to a renewed push for homes to switch to electric or induction cooktops. Just in time for that push, a new partnership between Silicon Valley Power (SVP) and the Adult Education program in the Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD). Read more at SVVOICE News.
Easy, cool, less fuel. Perfect for summer.
Here's an int'g write-up in the New York Times about induction cooking.
www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/dining/07induction.html?pagewa...
Found in Vertical File 271, Seattle Municipal Archives.