DESIGNED BY GIRL NON-SMOKER . <•» — Because of the shortage of matches in Britain, millions, of people there, will soon be lighting their cigarettes and pipes with a standard lighter made of plastic material. Tha Invention of Diana Berry,, a 21 year old land girl, the design has been approved by Britain's Tobacco Con— troller, Board of Trade and the British Standards Institute. It will cost the public about 6/6, and manufacturers are prepared to make -4,00,000 for a start. The use of plastics for the new lighter—only the flint wheel is of" metal—provides another example of the value of these materials at a time when metals of all kinds aret rare. Made from raw materials of which there are unlimited supplies fn Britain, plastics are being used in the production of aeroplanes,, radio and electrical equipment, binoculars, spectacles ami submarine periscopes, gear-wheels and bearings,, and even houses, coffins and dinghies.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 7, 23 January 1942, Page 5
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