Wright's coal tar vaporizer
Maker and role
Wright Layman and Umney Ltd
Production date
1940-1959
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A vaporizer unit in the original cardboard packaging which is badly torn. The box also contains a glass bottle with a black screw-on lid of 'Wright's coal tar vaporizing liquid' with a label, and a small paper envelope containing a 'professional sample' of Wright's coal tar soap.
Directions for use are printed on the box together with a picture of the vaporizer. Further text on the box reads: 'This package contains six night lights' of which only one remains inside the vaporizer and is partly used. Other text reads:
Made in England by Wright Layman and Umney Ltd, Southwark, London. Ingredients: Naphthalenum 1.50%, cresol B.P. 88.50%.
Instructive text is also printed on metal vaporizer itself: 'For diffusing the valuable antiseptic constituents of Wright's Coal Tar Soap and Liquor Carbonis Detergens. Invaluable for Whooping Cough, Influenza, Croup and all infections of the Respiratory Organs.'
Directions for use are printed on the box together with a picture of the vaporizer. Further text on the box reads: 'This package contains six night lights' of which only one remains inside the vaporizer and is partly used. Other text reads:
Made in England by Wright Layman and Umney Ltd, Southwark, London. Ingredients: Naphthalenum 1.50%, cresol B.P. 88.50%.
Instructive text is also printed on metal vaporizer itself: 'For diffusing the valuable antiseptic constituents of Wright's Coal Tar Soap and Liquor Carbonis Detergens. Invaluable for Whooping Cough, Influenza, Croup and all infections of the Respiratory Organs.'
Collection Type
Objects
Catalogue Number
3055/123
Associated Person and Role
British Red Cross Society
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