Cardboard box to house AVO Exposure meter model B
Automatic Coil Winder and Elecrtrical Equipment Co. Ltd (London)
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1936
Materials
Cardboard
Measurements
85 x 75 x 38 mm
Place of origin
London
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525005.3
Summary
Cardboard box to house AVO Exposure meter model B. Cardboard box in two parts. The white rigid and fairly robust base in which the light meter will sit. The two ends of the base are green with the words "The New AVO exposure meters" and "Reg Trade Mark" The lid of the box would slide onto the base. It is mostly green paper with white and black writing and designs on it. The front and back both have a picture of the light meter and "Made In England" on either side of the picure and also above it the words "The New AVO Exposure Meter" The two sides of the box have the wording ""Another "New" Member of the Avo Family" onother "Made by The Automatic Coil Winder & Electrical Equipment Co Ltd. Winder House, Douglas St, London S.W.1. Telephone Victoria 3404/7"
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.
Makers and roles
Automatic Coil Winder and Elecrtrical Equipment Co. Ltd (London), manufacturer