Early issues of London Diver now online

[DavidRitchieWilson]

Full-text versions of the following early issues of "The London Diver", the journal of the London Branch of the British Sub Aqua Club, are now online:

Volume 1 No. 1: May-June 1959
www.londondiver.com/history/magazine/LondonDiver.1.1.pdf
Volume 1 No. 2: July-August 1959
www.londondiver.com/history/magazine/LondonDiver.1.2.pdf
Volume 1 No. 3: September-October 1959
www.londondiver.com/history/magazine/LondonDiver.1.3.pdf
Volume 1 No. 4: November-December 1959
www.londondiver.com/history/magazine/LondonDiver.1.4.pdf
Volume 2 No. 5: January-February 1960
www.londondiver.com/history/magazine/LondonDiver.2.5.pdf
Volume 2 No. 6: March-April 1960
www.londondiver.com/history/magazine/LondonDiver.2.6.pdf

The last 3 issues of the magazines contain interesting period advertisements from Lillywhites, Heinke and Typhoon. The Typhoon advert shows a diver in a wetsuit with velcro fastenings costing £14 15s. The Heinke advert shows a twin set "Heinke Lung" and mentions the company's sheet-rubber "Delta" drysuit. This must have been shortly before Heinke merged with Siebe Gorman.

If you go to the main London Divers site, there's what's termed "a bit of history" at:

www.londondiver.com/history/

There's a gallery with some historical photographs at:

www.londondiver.com/gallery/

Hope this is of interest.

David

[dogsbodydiving]

Good find David very interesting. Down loaded them all, ready to print.

Kim

[LondonDivercom]

Hi David

It's nice to see they are being seen by the world at large.
They are part of a biger project to restore much of the history of London Branch the very first BSAC branch.

We will be adding much more as it comes avaliable.
So watch www.londondiver.com/history/magazine/

Tobias
LondonDiver.com webmaster