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What, when and where?
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Re: NEH 391
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2010, 02:59:00 PM »
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Re: NEH 391
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2010, 04:36:42 AM »
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Re: NEH 391
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 05:49:39 AM »
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Re: NEH 391
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 07:20:52 AM »
This is a car made of glass fibre and Bakelite polyester resin on show at the British Plastics Exhibition 1953, made by Bakelite Limited.

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Re: NEH 391
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 08:00:55 AM »
This is a car made of glass fibre and Bakelite polyester resin on show at the British Plastics Exhibition 1953, made by Bakelite Limited.

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A new source reports that this car was shown by Warerite Ltd, a subsidiary of Bakelite Limited, that was born in 1949.

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Don't think this attractive body went to waste.
Pictured below is the Aston Martin engined RGS-Atalanta from 1954:

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