An email recently arrived from a visitor to the website. Attached was the image (above) of a copper printing plate, found in the garage of his uncle Fred following his death, showing Henry Howell's completed Hendon factory in 1935. Fred was apprenticed as a wood turner at the age of 14 and the sender's assumption is that Fred worked, as an apprentice, at the Howell factory. According to him, Fred "was a bit of a squirrel all his life and I suppose he must have kept the plate as a memento of his first job, even though it couldn`t have lasted long." Presumably the plate was intended to be used (or maybe was used) by the company in its publicity.

This is how the printed version would have looked:

Howell anoraks might be interested to know that the building still exists (in Carlisle Road, The Hyde, London, NW9 0HN) and retains most of its original external features. The easy way to see it is courtesy of Google here.