utility furniture

In August 1943 he pressed for an increased supply of utility furniture.

From the end of the year, manufacturers are permitted to make Utility furniture to their own designs.

There are some utility furniture designs up here.

In 1942 Utility furniture went on sale.

So you didn't buy any utility furniture?

The mark was used on so-called utility clothing and utility furniture manufactured during that period.

Did you have utility furniture?

December - End of Utility furniture scheme.

The so-called Utility furniture, also Government issue, dates from the war, when only newlyweds and bombing victims were allowed to buy it.

Utility clothing, and later utility furniture, was marked with the CC41 mark.

Introduced in 1942, the Utility Furniture Scheme continued into post-war austerity and lasted until 1952.

The Committee produced a number of approved designs, published in the Utility Furniture Catalogue of 1943.

And um, if you'd like to have a look at this book, Utility Furniture and Fashion, later you can see some more utility clothes.

The range includes living room, bedroom, dining room furniture & Knick-Knack utility furniture.

Popular hankering for superfluous ornament however manifested itself immediately, and instances were apparently reported of black market utility furniture with added carvings and decoration.

The British Utility furniture of the 1940s was simple in design and derived from Arts and Crafts principles.

In nineteen forty two, a range of utility furniture was produced comprising twenty two articles in two qualities and three designs, each conforming to predetermined criteria.

During World War II he developed utility furniture as chairman of the government's Utility Furniture Design Panel.

Other ranges and designs were introduced to cope with even heavier demands and with minor amendments, utility furniture was still being produced at the time of the festival of Britain in nineteen fifty one.

Gordon Russell, chairman of the Utility Furniture Design Panel, manufactured in the Cotswold Hills, which had become a region of Arts and Crafts furniture making when Ashbee relocated there.

Utility furniture refers to furniture produced in the United Kingdom during and just after World War II, under a Government scheme which was designed to cope with shortages of raw materials and rationing of consumption.

The CC41 logo of utility furniture was taken from that developed earlier for the Utility clothing scheme: two capital letters C's and the figure 41, for "Civilian Clothing 1941" (which soon became known as "The Cheeses").

The lithe vessel left a white wake that stretched all the way back to the long iron and glass walkway of the railway terminal, a thin cord of foam linking the crowded paddle-steamer to a solid world of steam trains, corner shops, and utility furniture.

The Pilgrim Trust commissioned 14 watercolours of buildings under threat from bombing from her, for its "Recording Britain" scheme and in 1943, the furniture designer Gordon Russell invited her to become a member of the Board of Trade "Utility Furniture" team.

The Utility Furniture Advisory Committee was set up in 1942, drawing on considerable expertise, principally Gordon Russell and Ernest Clench, also Herman Lebus and John Gloag, in order to assure that the scarce available resources were used in a sensible way.