Factory That Broke the Mould Finds New Home at Museum ; Bakelite Pioneers' Machinery Saved for Posterity by Unique -and Eccentric -West Attraction That Celebrates 'the Material of a Thousand Uses'

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Apioneering plastics factory's time-warp machinery and yet-to-be- opened records have found a new home at the West's unique Bakelite Museum.

The museum itself is a deliciously eccentric homage to the "material of a thousand uses".

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Factory That Broke the Mould Finds New Home at Museum ; Bakelite Pioneers' Machinery Saved for Posterity by Unique -and Eccentric -West Attraction That Celebrates 'the Material of a Thousand Uses'

From classic Art Deco radio sets to jade green War Office telephones, eye-poppingly bright red toast racks and even a bomb's nose cone, the museum demonstrates the phenomenal versatility of t...

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