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Figures 1, 2 Courtesy of the British Plastics Federation; Figure 5 Bakelite AG; Figure 10 Courtesy of Flymo; Figures 11, 14 DSM High Performance Fibers; Figure 13: Cook (UK) Limited; Figure 28: Courtesy of RAPRA; Figure p. 45 Ewen, J. A. (1997) ‘New chemical tools to create plastics’, Scientific American; May 1997. Reprinted with permission from BioGrafx, New York; Figure 41 Flory, P. J. (1949) Frontiers in Chemistry, vol VI, John Wiley and Sons Inc. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley and Sons Inc.; Figure 47: Nielsen (1962) Mechanical Properties of Polymers, Van Nostrand Reinhold; Figure 48 Tobolsky, A. V. (1962) Properties and Structures of Polymers, © Dr Dorothy E. Tobolsky. John Wiley and Sons Inc. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley and Sons Inc.; Figure 50 Lockett, F. J. (1982) Engineering Design for Plastics, National Physics Laboratory; Figure 56a Hall, C. (1981) Polymer Materials, Macmillan Press Ltd, © 1981 C. Hall; Figure 56b Bassett, D. C. (1981) Principles of Polymer Morphology, Cambridge University Press; Figure 57 Gaylord, N. G. and Mark, H. F. (1959) Linear and Stereoregular Addition Polymers, The Interscience Publishers, New York; Figure 58: Reprinted with permission from Nature, 174, Bunn, C. W. and Howells, E. R. (1954) p. 549, Copyright 1954 Macmillan Magazines Limited; Figure 61: Burret, A. R. (1974) Dinghy Recognition, The Blandford Press; Figure 62: Courtesy of Ian Proctor; Figure 70: Topper International Ltd;

Table 11 O'Connor, M. (1978) Management and Design in the British Small Boat Industry. Report to the Design Council; Table 12 From the 1CI Technical Data Booklet PPSO (1981), Courtesy of ICI.

Figures 1.1, 1.2 and 1.4: Courtesy of Electrolux Manufacturing Ltd

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