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

Ross-Ensign Ltd

1904 - 1961
1942-2018, physicist, British

Stephen Hawking

1942 - 2018
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
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
photographer; 1942-present(2016); New Zealand; UK

Denis Waugh

1942
artist; photographer; local historian

Roger Birch

1941 - 2013
1943-1959, newspaper owners including Sunday Times, newspaper printers, England, British

Kemsley Newspapers Limited

1943
1943-2005, electro-acoustic musician, British

Hugh Davies

1943 - 2005
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
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
Founded 1966, artist collective, Japan

Computer Technique Group

1912
1942-1957, government department, British

Ministry of Fuel and Power

1942 - 1901
1943-2012, designer, British

Bill Moggridge

1943 - 2012
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

Peter J W Noble

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

George Watson Muir

1943
1940-1970s, speech, hearing, and communication research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American

Harvard University, Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory

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

Antony Paul Watkinson

1940
Mr

Nick Hedges

1943
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
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
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
railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway company director

Peter J. Forbes

1907
1940; railway employee, railway operations manager, railway safety manager, consultant

David John Maidment

1940