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Ploughing memories

It is probable that the passage of time, and the memory of that land girl, has caused Alan to have got the name slightly wrong, as there was a Wilmot Turnall plough, also called the Wilmot's Turnall plough, but no records of a 'Wilnot Durnall'. When advertised in 1943, Wilmot's 'Turnall' Deep Digging Plough was claimed to produce furrows 12-16 inches wide and 4-12 inches deep.

SM Wilmot & Co Ltd, 66 St Philip's, Bristol, were in the 1920s a galvanised iron works and they made all manner of equipment including the deep digging tractor plough and Turnall plough.

Products of SM Wilmot appeared in a book called The Servantless House, published by the magazine Country Life some time just after the Great War. It was a book on running one’s household without domestic help. One product was Wilmot's Hygienic Bathroom Bracket. All of enamelled iron, it consists of two, three or four trays, instantly removable, the reader is left to their own imagination to try and work out what function this bracket performed.

D Bowler
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