| Description | A male technician wearing spectacles, is shown seated at a laboratory bench examining a cigarette; there are cigarettes, tobacco and papers on the bench in front of him, with scales and glass jars. Taken at the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London.
Captioned verso: 'How the Government protects the public from fraud. Sometimes an inspector walks into a tobacco shop and purcahses samples of their cigarettes and cigarette papers. These are sent to the Government laboratories where they are carefully analysed. Our photograph shows cigarette papers being tested and their purity determined.' Stamped: 'Copyright Halftones Limited. 17, Fleet Street, E.C.' In pencil below: 'Fee 5/-' and above 'Examination of Cigarettes'. |