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UK Manufacturers, Part3

 

The new economic realities at end of the First World War saw the closure or amalgamation of some of the old card firms due to lack of staff and investment.Meanwhile in Bavaria, just outside of Nurenberg the small German firm of J.W.Spear & Sons started selling games aimed at the UK and English speaking markets. They had opened their modern factory using steam powered machines in 1899. Germany at the time was the games capital of the world and their games were made in German, French, Dutch and Spanish as well as English. But it wasn't until 1932 that they set up a small factory in Enfield, Middlesex (UK) to get around the crippling increase in import duty.

It was during the late 1920s and early 1930s that Chad Valley started producing Disney Mickey Mouse games for the UK market, and just after that, in about mid 1930s, Castell Brothers (who up until then had published books) started the Pepys series of card games. One of their first card games being “Mickey's Funfair” featuring Disney's famous mouse and his friends.

Also about this time Amalgamated Press who produced children's annuals formed Waddy Productions to bring out card games such as “Spelling Bee” and “Fleet Street”.

 

 

 

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