An advert from "Flight" featuring the Austin furniture business from 1941, when the company was manufacturing military aircraft including the de Havilland Mosquito, as part of the "The War Effort". The company would later go on to produce a range of furniture, known as "Austinsuite", which would become a household name.
Lew Austin was production manager. On one occasion Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian newspaper entrepreneur who was Minister of Aircraft Production in Churchill's war Ministry, visited the factory and was shown round by "Mr Lew". After the visit one of the men's toilets had two articles graffiti on the wall. The first read "Lord Beaverbrook is a c**t" The second read "No I'm not".
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