Britain Can Make It Ephemera
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| Illustrative booklet highlighting industrial designs, displayed at the Britain Can Make It exhibition | |
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Illustrative booklet highlighting industrial designs, displayed at the Britain Can Make It exhibition
Exhibitors were asked for their new post-war products. They responded by presenting over 5,000 new consumer goods for the home and garden. Unfortunately, many were only available for export and not available in British shops for months to come.
Britain Can Make It exhibition map and illustrated leaflet
The exhibition had over 30 sections, taking visitors on a journey from wartime to peacetime manufacturing, and showing how developments in technology and production techniques could lead to improved standards of living. In total nearly 1.5m people visited the display and millions of pounds of overseas orders were generated.
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[edit] How did that work
Britain was impoverished after the war. In dept to many countries, it was cash poor but able to manufacture goods that were wanted in other parts of the world. The export drive was a way that Britain could pay off its debt to the rest of the world, but it left the people in Britain without many new, exciting goods that they wanted.
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[edit] In the Science Museum
The Museum acquired these objects in 2008.
Inv. No: E2007.322.1 Source: Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University
This object is currently on display in the Dan Dare & the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum, London.