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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 163418, member: 25"]The utility products were a WWII British effort to maintain production of general goods with limited resources. The stuff produced to utility standards all had the utility mark on them. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_furniture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_furniture" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_furniture</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A lot more than furniture was covered. As always the article is worth a read to give perspective to today's (over)abundance of stuff. You had to be there to really notice you are not. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes I walk down the street pretending to be from 1950 and looking out for 'futuristic' stuff. Strange things like quiet cars and fat people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 163418, member: 25"]The utility products were a WWII British effort to maintain production of general goods with limited resources. The stuff produced to utility standards all had the utility mark on them. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_furniture[/URL] A lot more than furniture was covered. As always the article is worth a read to give perspective to today's (over)abundance of stuff. You had to be there to really notice you are not. Sometimes I walk down the street pretending to be from 1950 and looking out for 'futuristic' stuff. Strange things like quiet cars and fat people.[/QUOTE]
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