Hair clippers, Browns, Gem
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Glentunnel Museum, Canterbury, New Zealand
These are clippers used to cut human head hair. Hair clippers comprise a pair of sharpened comb-like blades in close contact one above the other which slide sideways relative to each other, to make the blades oscillate from side to side, and a handle. The clipper is moved so that hair is positioned between the teeth of the comb, and cut with a scissor action. Friction between the blades needs to be as low as possible, which is attained by choice of material and finish, and frequent lubrication. Barbers used them to cut hair close and fast. In the mid 20th-century such haircuts became popular among boys, and young men in the military and in prisons. Brown's Clipper Co was based in Birmingham and operated from 1939 until the late 1950s.
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Hair clippers, Browns, Gem
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Brown's Clipper Co
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Inorganic, plated steel, plastic bag. Organic, paper instruction sheet in several languages, felt blade cover., l 155 mm; w 85 mm
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3 Philip Street, Glentunnel, Canterbury, New Zealand
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