Sample of nickel-chrome element used in electric kettles

Made:: 1966 in London

maker:: L G Hawkins and Company Limited

Sample of nickel-chrome element used in electric kettles, cookers and fires, first patented by A.L. March in 1906 (pat no 2129), by L.G. Hawkins and Co, London, 1966

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Category:: Domestic Appliances

Object Number:: 1993-910

Materials:: whole, nickel, nickel-chrome alloy and whole, chrome, nickel-chrome alloy

type:: samples

credit:: Hawkins, L.G. and Co.

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Sample of nickel-chrome element used in electric kettles

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