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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
1943-2004, manufacturer of cryptographic and photographic equipment, Switzerland

Gretag AG

1943 - 2004
1942-2018, physicist, British

Stephen Hawking

1942 - 2018
1951-1961, lens, camera and film manufacturer, London

Ross-Ensign Ltd

1904 - 1961
1943-1948, manufacturer of aircraft and ballpoint pens, Reading, England

Miles Aircraft Co

1943 - 1948
Professor

Stephen William Hawking

1942 - 2018
1941-1993, manufacturer of optical equipment; camera manufacturer, Russia

Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk

1941 - 1993
photographer; 1942-present(2016); New Zealand; UK

Denis Waugh

1942
1941-1972, photographer, British; English

Tony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
1940-1990s, manufacturer of pharmaceutical preparations, Epsom, Surrey, England

Willows Francis Limited

1940 - 1997
1940-2005, camera manufacturer, Japan

Mamiya

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

North Staffordshire Pottery Company Limited

1940 - 1952
1943-1959, newspaper owners including Sunday Times, newspaper printers, England, British

Kemsley Newspapers Limited

1943
artist; photographer; local historian

Roger Birch

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

809 Squadron (Fleet Air Arm)

1941 - 1982

Hugh Davies

1943 - 2005
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
1942-1999, photographer, India, Paris, London, New York

Raghubir Singh

1942 - 1999

Save our Railways

1903 - 2001
Mr

Roy Alon

1942 - 2006
Founded 1966, artist collective, Japan

Computer Technique Group

1912
1943-1945, army unit, British and Canadian

21st Army Group

1907 - 1908
Mr

John Anthony Twelves

1941 - 1996
Mr

Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
1942-1957, government department, British

Ministry of Fuel and Power

1942 - 1901
1940-2009, photographer, British

Bill Jay

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

Clive Marles Sinclair

1940 - 2021

Francis Owen Garbett Williams

1942 - 2021

Peter J W Noble

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

Antony Paul Watkinson

1940
1943; businessman, engineer, railway company director, railway industry body director

George Watson Muir

1943
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
Mr

Nick Hedges

1943
active 1940-1980s?, manufacturer of X-ray tubes, North Wembley, England

Machlett X-Ray Tubes Limited

1940
1943; railway engineer, railway engineering manager, railway company director

Brian Leonard Clementson

1943
1943-, physicist; radio astronomer, British

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

1943
1945; railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway civil engineering manager, railway infrastructure manager

Richard John Spoors

1912
1943-2005, electro-acoustic musician, British

Hugh Davies

1943 - 2005
1949; railway employee, railway telecommunications engineer, railway company director, telecommunications engineer

Clive Kessell

1907
1940; barrister, railway industry body director, barrister

John A. Swift

1940
1941-, engineering company, American

British Timken Ltd

1941
1943; railway employee, railway research manager, railway consultant

R. Monty Hiatt

1943
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
b 1940, engine driver, trades unionist, manager, United Kingdom

Lew Adams

1940