Year | 1920 |
Date | 25-Mar |
Volume | 42 |
Issue | 987 |
Page | 291 |
Category | General |
Part | |
Title | The Manufacture of Artificial Limbs |
Author | |
Notes | A Business founded by a Model Engineer, Edward W.Hobbs. The first "Hobbs" arm, the machine shop at Balham, leather workers, Hobbs "partial hand" making, a battery of milling machines, a mechanical hand, the stores at Ealing, in the tool room, machine shop at the "essential" limb works, finishing touches to the wood parts, the wood mill, making Hobbs mechanical hands, the "smithy", assembling "essential" legs, assembling "Hobbs" arms, a "double above" amputation successfully re-equipped |