is the trade name for a range of decorative moulded articles first produce by Brookes & Adams in the 1920’s “the ideal picnic and dainty table ware”.
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1950’s factory
shot film clip taken in our factory in the early 1950’s
Land Rover 338871 transfer lever boot
Testing of our Land Rover 338871 transfer lever boot carried out Zippy the border terrier
Bandalasta Colours
Bandalasta & Fiesta have been produced in a wide variety of colours, the single self colours, the two colour marbled and the rich multi-coloured marbled. In the early catalogues the colours were given an alphanumeric code which indicated the constituent colours. Some of the later colour combinations do not appear to have been given a code so we have taken it upon ourselves to make one up, but based on the original system! Listed below are the colours that we have been able to identify to date, the ones in italics being the ones with the made up codes.
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Land Rover Steering wheel Moulding Video
Sunbeam Talbot Steering Wheels
Re-moulding of your original Sunbeam Talbot steering wheel rim
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Ebonite was developed in the early 1800’s and is made from natural rubber.
Continue reading Ebonite Moulding MaterialBandalasta Catalogue
Index of known Bandalasta and Fiesta mouldings produced by Brookes & Adams & Charlesworth & Son. If there are items you are looking for where moulds still exist we are happy to bring them back into production.
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