Found
in a pit with World War ll rubble, during excavation prior to redevelopment
at Canterbury Lane, Canterbury. The letters read 'MORLEY' and the
wing tips of the bird motif are approximately 14 centimeters apart.
If
you have any idea what this might be please
send
us an email
It
looks like Castle House Museum in Dunoon, Argyllshire has
solved this mystery, by way of a conversation between its
manager and an ex-managing director of Courtaulds while visiting
the museum. In a display of bygones is an advert for I &
R Morley Ltd, a Nottingham based hosiery and knitwear manufacturers
and at one time connected in some way with Courtaulds. On
the Morley price card is the company logo, a ‘winged
wheel’. Have a look at the picture here sent by the
museum and compare it with our Canterbury find!
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Guy
Attfield wrote: As a school boy in the 1950s and early 60s,
I wore Morley socks – at the time they were one of the best
known hosiery brands – subsequently swallowed up by Courtaulds. I would guess that the emblem came from
a wooden shop display stand provided by Morley – the equivalent
modern plastic/chipboard 'permanent' display stand.
Dave
C sent us these links:
This looks very similar: http://mikeramirez.net/Wingwhee.gif
And: http://www.policelocker.com/Leases2/Home.cfm?Action=
Webview&ProductID1=96&WebRet=Yes&StoreID=305&AID=
Guessing the badge may have something to do with local bikers or
maybe US personnel based in area?
John
Cooper wrote: This looks Like the badge from the head stock
of a bicycle depicting a winged wheel, but I don't recognise the
name. Hope this helps.
And
thanks, again, to Jacqueline Baric for these:
1) Could it have something to do with the Swanton Morley airfield?
[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s29.html].
And this was taken from this site: http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART32196.html
"Swanton Morley, Norfolk, along with West Malling has the best-preserved
example of the most definably Art Deco of the Air Ministry's control
tower designs. The first combined bombing raid with British and
American personnel was launched from Swanton Morley on June 29 1942,
with both Churchill and Eisenhower present."
Just because it does look very art deco, perhaps it was a “souvenir”
from that airfield site.
2) Or ATB Morley, makers of industrial machines and engines, may
have had something to do with it; they have been around since 1897
and may have created something that would have been at the site
during the war. I can only hazard a guess based on their website
information about their products.
Just some thoughts. This one is a bit more specific and not being
from the UK, I’m not sure how much I’ve helped here.
Hopefully somebody else came up with something better! Cheers, until
the next artifact.
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