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Message:: [QUOTE="Eveline, post: 193942, member: 3563"]Found this bit of information online. Can't find much more. Cox & Company, formerly, Cox of Watford was formed in the late 1920s by Roland William Cox.Cox, initially making car accessories under the vehicle manufacturer Rotax, pioneered early windscreen design and tubular automobile seating. On leaving Rotax and exposed to Thonet's tubular steel furniture of the 1930s Cox & Co  was founded with a focus shifting to military vehicles and private commissions. Early notable orders included 5,000 chairs for Bobby's department store in Bournemouth, 2,500 tables for Dreamland, Margate and a series of pieces for the BBC's broadcasting House (1931-2) and flip-up seating for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1935.Government contracts to produce decoy tanks of tubular steel and canvas briefly put a pause to proceedings before momentum quickly returned post 1945. At one point it has been said there wasn't a village hall to be found in the country that lacked a stack of the classic "Cox-Chair".During its 1950s and 1960s hay-day Cox & Co returned entirely to the production of non-transport products, winning contracts to supply Heathrow and the Royal Festival Hall.With the company selling up in the 1980s the archive has been stored in sheds of the family farm for 30 years - receiving the occasional airing at family parties since then.[/QUOTE]