A brief general history of the UK paint industry: Part 4: The first smash and grab and on to the second

Abstract

The long peace was coming to an end; all the ingredients were present: an arms race, international mistrust; frivolous brinkmanship and the determination of Germans to engage in foreign conquest — both in the shade and in the sun. Mainland European capitals buzzed twenty‐four hours a day and swords were being sharpened; in sleepy Aldershot, as the beautiful summer of 1914 reached its blazing zenith, George V drank Louis Roederer Crystal Brut and shot pigeons with officers and gentlemen.

Citation

Boon, H. (1985), "A brief general history of the UK paint industry: Part 4: The first smash and grab and on to the second", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 14-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb042126