1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VIII.: John Lavars

31. LAVARS, JOHN, Bridge Street, Bristol — Inventor.
Models of a floating buoyant settee, for the decks of passenger steamers, resembling in shape, size, and appearance the usual settees, and capable of being converted into a raft. The seat is composed of two boxes, which fold on each other, each box containing an air-tight gutta percha case.
He also had a lithographic office at 18 Bridge street, Bristol. [1]
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- ↑ 1859 advert.