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Sport and General Press Agency Biography Biography
The Sport and General Press Agency is known to have been operating from 1910 until c1970 as a news and photographic agency. The company was based in Essex Street initially, before moving to Fleet Street. Much of the company's photographic archive was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1941. The business remained active in 1970, when the company won two British Press 'Picture of the Year' awards. Copyright in Sport and General Photographs passed to Alpha Photo Press Ltd.

Scope and Content
Photograph with a caption that reads: '144904 Republique Francaise, Commissariat A L'energie Atomique. Radioactive Survey Equipment. Portable Rate Meter A.V.P. This instrument is calibrated in number of pulses per second. Variations of 10% of background counts can be detected. Activities up to 100 times the background can be measured. Time constant of integration: 5 sec. Power is supplied by accumulators of 45 hours capacity.'
Extent
1 photograph
Language
English
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Conditions governing access
Open access
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions