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

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954
1945-1964, camera and optical instrument maker, East Germany

VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, Jena

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

Ross-Ensign Ltd

1904 - 1961
1940-1990s, manufacturer of pharmaceutical preparations, Epsom, Surrey, England

Willows Francis Limited

1940 - 1997
1940-1952, potteries, Cobridge, England

North Staffordshire Pottery Company Limited

1940 - 1952
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
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway passenger manager, railway company director

Ivor William Warburton

1908

Save our Railways

1903 - 2001
active 1939-1955, British government department, England

Ministry of Food

1939 - 1955
1939-1981, cine camera and projector manufacturer, St Etienne

Heurtier et Cie

1939 - 1981
1943-1945, army unit, British and Canadian

21st Army Group

1907 - 1908
Founded 1966, artist collective, Japan

Computer Technique Group

1912
1939-1990, optical and image processing equipment manufacturer, Delft

Oldelft

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

Neil Cossons

1939
Racing Car Designer and Motorsport Executive

Robin Herd

1939 - 2019
1940-2009, photographer, British

Bill Jay

1940 - 2009
b. 1940, inventor, entrepeneur; businessman, British

Clive Marles Sinclair

1940 - 2021
active 1939-current (2010), research institute, British

The Burden Neurological Institute

1939
1939; railway employee, railway manager, railway civil engineering manager, railway company director

Jim Scott Cornell

1939

Peter J W Noble

1940
1939; railway employee, railway manager, railway infrastructure manager, railway company director

Robert Wallace Urie

1939
1940; railway employee, railway manager, railway personnel manager, railway company director

Antony Paul Watkinson

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

Harvard University, Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory

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

Machlett X-Ray Tubes Limited

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

David E. Rayner

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

Clive Kessell

1907
1939; railway employee, signal engineer, railway signalling manager, railway company director

Ken W. Burrage

1939
1945; railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway civil engineering manager, railway infrastructure manager

Richard John Spoors

1912
1940; barrister, railway industry body director, barrister

John A. Swift

1940
railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway company director

Peter J. Forbes

1907
photographer; 1939 to present (2016); USA; UK

John Benton-Harris

1939
1940; railway employee, railway operations manager, railway safety manager, consultant

David John Maidment

1940
1939-?, manufacturer of healthcare products, American

Baxter Laboratories Inc

1939
Professor

Anthony J Trewavas

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

Christopher Wesley Bolt

1910
b 1940, engine driver, trades unionist, manager, United Kingdom

Lew Adams

1940
b 1940, artist and photographer, Japanese

Nobuyoshi Araki

1940
1947; railway employee, railway manager, railway telecommunications manager, railway company director

Michael Robert Edward Jones

1905
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

Gordon John Dudman

1901
physicist

Kip Stephen Thorne

1940
b. 1939, jewellery designer, British

Wendy Ramshaw

1939

Michael Francis Tompsett

1939
1954; railway employee, station master, railway manager

Donald George Jary

1906
b 1939, fine art photographer, American

Joel-Peter Witkin

1939
1939-current (2010), artist, England

Gordon King

1939
active 1939-current (2016), computer software and hardware technology company, United States, American

Hewlett Packard Company

1939
1939-1945, war charity organisation, British

Joint War Organisation

1939