Bill Russell
Bill Russell (1920-2006)
WWII Served in REME
1947 Left the services as a Major
Joined the home appliance manufacturer Morphy-Richards and helped to design the pop-up toaster, the electric iron and the hairdryer.
1952 With Peter Hobbs they invented the world's first automatic coffee percolator, the CP1, with Russell's ingenuity and started the Russell Hobbs company in Croydon.
Russell was in charge of product development, and Hobbs was the sales director. Manufacturing tools were made out of Meccano. Russell's de facto ultimate safety test for any new product was to pour half a pint of boiling gravy on it. The company was in profit from day one.
1962 Russell Hobbs was acquired by Tube Investments
Bill Russell became technical director of Creda.
Then he managed Turnright Controls
William Russell died in February 2006.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia