This is most likely ' Woody' A H Woodfull. designed in 1932 in BEETLEWARE .High quality urea gave rise to clean colours. The geometric idiom of modern thought at the time, part of a breakfast set, cup & saucer. plate, tray, milk jug , egg cup ,& spoons , a small mustard spoon, and napkin ring.

That's great David, thanks you - Hope this means your account is now sorted. Do you know where we can see examples of the rest of the set?

Ian15.mdx had found some wonderfully illuminating images.

Steve Akhurst reflects on the designer of this cruet:The early 30's was a complicated time, BCC, British Cyanides Company changes its name to BIP while Streetly Manufacturing, initially an independent company, was bought out and then absorbed as part of BIP. Amongst all this, two characters emerge Woody who probably joined Streetly initially and Jim Butler who probably joined BCC a little earlier. These two eventually came together as a technical/design team, Woody doing the industrial design and Jim doing the engineering/tooling design (you can't have one without the other. The details of all this would make a book in itself were the information available. Anyway, I still believe that the hexagonal cruet set was designed by Jim Butler before Woody had settled into the organisation. In the way of evidence I quote from Barbara Tilson's thesis 'The development of the British plastics industry 1850 yo 1990': 'Woodfull confirmed in response to a telephoned question that certain items, such as the hexagonal condiment set and various goods for Woolworths, were designed by Butler.............' The development of the British plastics industry 1850 to 1990'.' Can anyone contribute anything more about Jim Butler?

/Users/davidharmanpowell/Desktop/Scanned Image 1.jpeg I am certain that Jim Butler did not design the cruet set ……. When I worked with Woody, he had in the Studio almost all the products he had designed from the early 1930's til 1953 including the cruet set . The COID magazine DESIGN December 1953 No 6o pages 13 to17 shows Woody's best work to date. Sorry to disagree with Steve………… David

Thank you for that David. Very helpful. Is that image from DESIGN magazine? Sadly it doesn't seem to have been published on line. I am afraid I left out a crucial line of Steve's evidence from Barbara Tilson's thesis 'The development of the British plastics industry 1850 to 1990': 'Woodfull confirmed in response to a telephoned question that certain items, such as the hexagonal condiment set and various goods for Woolworths, were designed by Butler.............' With two such conflicting but clear bits of evidence it is hard to know where to go from here. I will have to lay my hands on that 1953 article - I am sure it will be hugely useful in other ways too.

Thank you Susan for the correction .I am surprised that it featured alongside Woody'sother designs. Sorry Steve.