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

Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk

1941 - 1993
1940-1990s, manufacturer of pharmaceutical preparations, Epsom, Surrey, England

Willows Francis Limited

1940 - 1997
1941-1972, photographer, British; English

Tony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
1940-2005, camera manufacturer, Japan

Mamiya

1940 - 2006
1940-1952, potteries, Cobridge, England

North Staffordshire Pottery Company Limited

1940 - 1952
artist; photographer

Cutting, Laurence

1939 - 2013
artist; photographer; local historian

Roger Birch

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

809 Squadron (Fleet Air Arm)

1941 - 1982
1940-1959, manufacturer of card games, British

Waddy Production

1940 - 1959
1941; civil servant, railway company director, railway board member, railway company director

John K. Welsby

1941 - 2021
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
Mr

John Anthony Twelves

1941 - 1996
Racing Car Designer and Motorsport Executive

Robin Herd

1939 - 2019
Mr

Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
1939-1990, optical and image processing equipment manufacturer, Delft

Oldelft

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

Neil Cossons

1939
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

Peter J W Noble

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

Jim Scott Cornell

1939
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
1940; British Rail employee, later board member for BRB and Railtrack

David E. Rayner

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

Machlett X-Ray Tubes Limited

1940
1945; railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway civil engineering manager, railway infrastructure manager

Richard John Spoors

1912
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
1940; barrister, railway industry body director, barrister

John A. Swift

1940
1941-, engineering company, American

British Timken Ltd

1941
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
railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway company director

Peter J. Forbes

1907
Mr

Geoffrey George Bamford Key

1941
1939-?, manufacturer of healthcare products, American

Baxter Laboratories Inc

1939
Professor

Anthony J Trewavas

1939
b 1940, engine driver, trades unionist, manager, United Kingdom

Lew Adams

1940
b. 1941, film producer; film director, politician, British

David Puttnam

1941
1953; economist, railway regulatory body leader, transport regulator employee

Christopher Wesley Bolt

1910
b 1940, artist and photographer, Japanese

Nobuyoshi Araki

1940
physicist

Kip Stephen Thorne

1940