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I'm guessing from the apparently relatively small-scale nature of these suppliers that the sheer scale of demand in WW1 & 2 led to many appropriate 'light engineering' companies taking on the work as a sideline. That all important 'by appointment' seal still marking them out as proper suppliers. Something in my head was envisioning a large 'Poppy Factory' sort of concern, but apparently not.
Thinking of just those death plaques from the first war, realistically it must have been a massive operation to churn out so many individually marked lumps of metal, the logistical scale hadn't really occurred to me before.
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