Plastic - and proud of it

A set of typed lecture notes on five pages, written by A.H. Woodfull, delivered to Brimingham Chamber of Commerce (undated) entitled 'Plastic - and proud of it : A.H.Woodfull, F.S.I.A. Manager of the Product Design Unit of British Industrial Plastics, suggests some reasons for the apprent 'inferiority complex' of plastics.' Topics covered include: the early days of the use of plastics for consumer products; the bad name of plastics materials; the inappropriate use of different plastics materials; how the general public were unaware of the range of plastics in use; the honest use of plastics materials for applications to which they are particularly suited; the potential of plastics to improve life. Woodfull was in the post of Manager of the Product Design Unit of BIP from 1951 to 1970. A handwritten note in the top left hand corner of the title sheet reads 'To B'ham Chamber of Commerce'

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