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Tue 03, 1953 -” TIN-LINO” MAN GOES TO SOMERSET HOUSE... MRS. SOMMERFIELD OWNS TWO-THIRDS OF...

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Tue 03, 1953 -” TIN-LINO” MAN GOES TO SOMERSET HOUSE... MRS. SOMMERFIELD OWNS TWO-THIRDS OF ANY AWARD.. Thirty-nine year old KARL SOMMERFIELD the man who invented the” Tin-Lino” - the portable road end airfield surfaces which kept planes and armys moving during vital periods of the war appeared before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors at Somerset House again this morning.. He is claiming £75,000 Royalties on £7,000,000 worth of the 'lino' used by Britain during the war.. He is also putting further claims in respect of the material used by the U.S. forces during the war. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: - Mrs. KARL SOMMERFIELD seen at Somerset House this morning. Mrs. Somerfield is said that although the invention is her husband's two-thirds of any award in invested in her name.
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Tue 03, 1953 -” TIN-LINO” MAN GOES TO SOMERSET HOUSE... MRS. SOMMERFIELD OWNS TWO-THIRDS OF ANY AWARD.. Thirty-nine year old KARL SOMMERFIELD the man who invented the” Tin-Lino” - the portable road end airfield surfaces which kept planes and armys moving during vital periods of the war appeared before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors at Somerset House again this morning.. He is claiming £75,000 Royalties on £7,000,000 worth of the 'lino' used by Britain during the war.. He is also putting further claims in respect of the material used by the U.S. forces during the war. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: - Mrs. KARL SOMMERFIELD seen at Somerset House this morning. Mrs. Somerfield is said that although the invention is her husband's two-thirds of any award in invested in her name.

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20th century / Great Britain / Europe / woman / British / great / brittany / photography / portrait / hat / face / black and white / 20th century / photograph / 1950-1959 annees 50 50s
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