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active 1944-1954, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, London, England

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954
1938-c.2000, radio and television manufacturer, Berkshire, England

Decca Radio and Television Limited

1938 - 2000
1945-1964, camera and optical instrument maker, East Germany

VEB Carl Zeiss Jena

1905 - 1964
1951-1961, lens, camera and film manufacturer, London

Ross-Ensign Ltd

1904 - 1961
Founded 1966, artist collective, Japan

Computer Technique Group

1912
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway passenger manager, railway company director

Warburton, Ivor William

1908
1939-1990, optical and image processing equipment manufacturer, Delft

Oldelft

1939
1941-1993, manufacturer of optical equipment; camera manufacturer, Russia

Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk

1941 - 1993
active 1939-current (2010), research institute, British

The Burden Neurological Institute

1939
1939-current (2011), pro-provost; chairman; director, English; British

Cossons, Sir Neil

1939
1940-1952, potteries, Cobridge, England

North Staffordshire Pottery Company Limited

1940 - 1952
1939; railway employee, railway manager, railway civil engineering manager, railway company director

Cornell, Jim Scott

1939
1938-1980, singer-songwriter, poet, actor, Russian, USSR

Vysotsky, Vladimir

1938 - 1980
1938; railway employee, railway operations manager; railway manager, railway company director, railway infrastructure company director, railway consultant

Ellis, John Russell

1938
1939; railway employee, railway manager, railway infrastructure manager, railway company director

Urie, Robert Wallace

1939
1940-1990s, manufacturer of pharmaceutical preparations, Epsom, Surrey, England

Willows Francis Limited

1940 - 1997
1940; railway employee, railway manager, railway personnel manager, railway company director

Watkinson, Antony Paul

1940
1949; railway employee, railway telecommunications engineer, railway company director, telecommunications engineer

Kessell, Clive

1907
1940; British Rail employee, later board member for BRB and Railtrack

Rayner, David E.

1940
artist; photographer; local historian

Birch, Roger

1941 - 2013
1941-1982, naval air squadron, United Kingdom

809 Squadron (Fleet Air Arm)

1941 - 1982

Hedges, Nick

194

Focal Press

1938
1945; railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway civil engineering manager, railway infrastructure manager

Spoors, Richard John

1912
1940-2005, camera manufacturer, Japan

Mamiya

1940 - 2006
artist; photographer

Cutting, Laurence

1939 - 2013
1940-1959, manufacturer of card games, British

Waddy Production

1940 - 1959
1939; railway employee, signal engineer, railway signalling manager, railway company director

Burrage, Ken W.

1939
active 1940-1980s?, manufacturer of X-ray tubes, North Wembley, England

Machlett X-Ray Tubes Limited

1940
1941; civil servant, railway company director, railway board member, railway company director

Welsby, John K.

1941 - 2021
photographer; 1939 to present (2016); USA; UK

Benton-Harris, John

1939
1941-1972, photographer, British; English

Ray-Jones, Tony

1941 - 1972
1940; railway employee, railway operations manager, railway safety manager, consultant

Maidment, David John

1940

Noble, Peter J W

1940
1940; barrister, railway industry body director, barrister

Swift, John A.

1940
1941-, engineering company, American

British Timken Ltd

1941

Key, Geoffrey George Bamford

1941
b 1941, artist, caricaturist, ceramicist, satirist, Ely

Law, Roger

1941
b. 1940, inventor, entrepeneur; businessman, British

Sinclair, Sir Clive

1940
1939-?, manufacturer of healthcare products, American

Baxter Laboratories Inc

1939

Trewavas, Anthony J

1939
1953; economist, railway regulatory body leader, transport regulator employee

Bolt, Christopher Wesley

1910
1940-1970s, speech, hearing, and communication research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American

Harvard University, Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory

1940
founded 1938, university department, Sheffield, England

University of Sheffield, Dept. of Biochemistry

1938
b 1940, artist and photographer, Japanese

Araki, Nobuyoshi

1940
railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway company director

Forbes, Peter J.

1907
b 1940, engine driver, trades unionist, manager, United Kingdom

Adams, Lew

1940
active 1939-1955, British government department, England

Ministry of Food

1939 - 1955
1978-current (2019), electronics and electrical equipment manufacturer, multinational; Tokyo, Japan, Japanese

Toshiba Corporation

1939
1952; railway employee, railway manager, railway freight manager, railway station master, railway parcels manager, railway freight manager, railway infrastructure manager

Dudman, Gordon John

1901