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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
1942-2018, physicist, British

Stephen Hawking

1942 - 2018
Professor

Stephen William Hawking

1942 - 2018
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
1940-1952, potteries, Cobridge, England

North Staffordshire Pottery Company Limited

1940 - 1952
1941-1972, photographer, British; English

Tony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
1940-2005, camera manufacturer, Japan

Mamiya

1940 - 2006
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
photographer; 1942-present(2016); New Zealand; UK

Denis Waugh

1942
1941; civil servant, railway company director, railway board member, railway company director

John K. Welsby

1941 - 2021
1942-1999, photographer, India, Paris, London, New York

Raghubir Singh

1942 - 1999
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
Mr

Roy Alon

1942 - 2006
1943-1945, army unit, British and Canadian

21st Army Group

1907 - 1908
Mr

Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
Mr

John Anthony Twelves

1941 - 1996
Founded 1966, artist collective, Japan

Computer Technique Group

1912
1942-1957, government department, British

Ministry of Fuel and Power

1942 - 1901
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

Francis Owen Garbett Williams

1942 - 2021
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
1942; railway employee, railway engineer, locomotive engineer, railway engineering manager, railway engineering company director

Mike Etwell

1942
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
1941-, engineering company, American

British Timken Ltd

1941
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