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of Basingstoke, distributor of microscopes and scientific instruments.
c.1959 John H. Bassett set up the business.
1968 Bassett, having been successful in running his own microscope business for some years, being an agent to the major microscope manufacturers, purchased J. Swift and Son Ltd.
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