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

From Graces Guide
1859.

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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  1. 1859 advert.