- Title:
- Ekcoware lidded box
- Object name(s):
- food storage; food container
- Brief description:
- A small square lidded food storage box made from injection moulded polyethylene by Ekco Plastics circa 1960s. The orange coloured box has a colourless flexible lid to allow air to be expelled prior to storage. The lid carries a 1963 registered design number of 914108.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- house and garden
- Colour:
- orange
- Colour:
- colourless
- Dimension:
- height 50 mm
- Dimension:
- width 115 mm
- Dimension:
- depth 115 mm
- Inscription content:
- EKCOWARE Ekco Plastics Southend-on-Sea Made in England Cat. No. SC2
- Inscription method:
- moulded
- Inscription position:
- lid
- Inscription content:
- EKCOWARE Reg. Design No. 914198
- Inscription method:
- moulded
- Inscription position:
- lid
- Material:
- plastic
- Material:
- PE
- Material:
- polyethylene
- Material:
- polythene
- Object name:
- food storage; food container
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 008178
- Object production organisation:
- EKCO Plastics
- Organisation's association:
- Manufacturer
- Object production organisation:
- EK Cole
- Organisation's association:
- Manufacturer
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Person's association:
- Designer
- Object production place:
- UK
- Technique:
- injection moulded
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6e5a3f1d-601c-38a4-95ce-9f9b84e83e3f
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6e5a3f1d-601c-38a4-95ce-9f9b84e83e3f, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY
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