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Original Text (Annotation: EAW005480 / 2015177)
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WW2 During World War Two and the Japanese invasion of Burma, the natural rubber supply was cut off to the rest of the free world, so Mr. Wilcox’s wire reinforced hose was much in demand for the transferring of oils and petroleum products.
The Ponders End factory was struck by an aerial land mine in 1941 and then again damaged by a V1 Flying Bomb in 1944, so additional factories were established in Finsbury Park and at Long Eaton, Derbyshire under the name of The Power Flexible Tubing Co. Ltd supplying hose assemblies for the aircraft manufacturing based in the north of England during WWII.
The Fulton Company manufactured sylphons for the Norden bombsight used in thousands of B-17 Flying Fortresses during WWII that was deemed to be so secret that it should not fall into enemy hands.
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