Coventry Firsts

Still happening today. Even when things are patented. Might there be records of Churchill's correspondence?

I've no idea how I would find that out but worth exploring.

There is this?

Thanks for letting me know Helen, I'm not sure this will help though as he says that he never received a reply, which seems to indicate that his letter was not received or lost in some way later on.

Whilst rooting around in old files, before retiring an old Windows PC, I stumbled across this, still active as I type, Coventry Evening Telegraph article about Coventry's Pink Fire Appliances/Engines.... Coventry Evening Telegraph: This is why Coventry firefighters once drove around in HOT PINK fire engines [also in Post 163: also in Coventry Fire Brigade (inc. Hales Street Fire Station)]