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WWII HOME FRONT ANGLO-SWISS COMPANY LTD. STRETCHER PARTY HELMET

** NEW ** WWII Home Front MkII helmet with Anglo-Swiss Company factory transfer to the front with the company's West Drayton details and logo and S.P. letters denoting Stretcher Party to front and rear, paper label affixed to shell interior, complete with MkII liner and webbing chinstrap.
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Description

Industry moved into the West Drayton area resulting in the building of factories, perhaps the most important being the Anglo-Swiss Screw Co.

In 1929 the Urban District of Yiewsley & West Drayton was formed and this further cemented the bringing together of Yiewsley and West Drayton. The outbreak of the Second World War put a hold on the development of the area with all energies diverted to the war effort and most able bodied men were called up for military service.

1940 saw the first bombs fall in the area damaging or destroying a number of buildings including a tobacconists shop on Swan Road.