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In 2011, AGA Rangemaster entered into a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with
Birmingham City University to establish a digital gallery of selected archive
material charting the AGA ‘look'. It is anticipated that the digital archive will make
a valuable contribution to the new Birmingham City Library.
Charlotte Whitehead – appointed as KTP associate and archivist – undertook the
principal research for this publication under the supervision of Dawn Roads,
cookery writer and head of the AGA demonstrator team (and, as such, a
successor to Mabel Collins)..
Charlotte and Dawn co-authored this booklet with Laura James and Tim James,
author of ‘AGA: The Story of a Kitchen Classic’. The booklet was designed and
produced by Mabel Gray.
Most of the images used are from the archives of AGA Rangemaster Group plc.
The Board minutes of Allied Ironfounders and AGA Heat from the 1930s and
1940s provided the backcloth to the research project.
AGA Rangemaster would like to thank the National Portrait Gallery; the Design
Council Archive (University of Brighton); Transco plc; Getty Images and the
Victoria & Albert Museum for permission to use photography and illustrations.
1. Carr, R. (1971). Obituary, Walter omas Wren (1901-1971). Design, Journal of the
Council of Industrial Design, no. 272, August 1971.
2. Raphaelson, J. (1986). e unpublished David Ogily – a selection of writing om the les
of his partners. Pub: e Ogily Group, Inc.
3. Morris, M. (1988). ings to do with shopping centres, in Sheridan, S. (ed.) Gras. P. 202.
4. Sugg Ryan, D. (2006). e vacuum cleaner under the stairs: women, modernity and do-
mestic technology in Britain between the wars. Design and Evolution: e Proceedings of the
Design History Society annual conference, 2006 (Design History Society & Technical Univer-
sity Del, Netherlands)
5. Braddell, D. (1935). Kitchen Planning and Equipment. Architectural Design and
Construction, ol. 5, p. 123-130.
6. Clendinning, A. (2004). Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry,
1889-1939. Pub: Ashgate
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soUrcEs, rEfErENcEs &
acKNoWLEdgEMENTs
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A 3-oven AGA Total Control in
the kitchen at Spring Cottage,
Cliveden, which in 1963 was at the
heart of the Profumo affair
THE MODERN RANGE
To bring an icon home, visit www.agaliving.com
or call 0845 712 5207 to organise an
AGA cookery demonstration
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