This appeared in the Norwood News On This Day 28th September 1934
Death of John Phillips, aged 94, who lived at 70 Mount Nod Road and before that at 31 Kingscourt Road with his wife Augusta.
A mechanical engineer he patented, the first rotary bacon cutter, the first boring morticing machine, a mineral water bottler, a brawn moulder. a mica cutter and a ballot register and checker.
He also invented a device to automatically turn music sheets at the request of Sir A Mann who was at the time conducting at Crystal Palace. The audience displayed more interest in his device than the music and so stopped being used
Death of John Phillips, aged 94, who lived at 70 Mount Nod Road and before that at 31 Kingscourt Road with his wife Augusta.
A mechanical engineer he patented, the first rotary bacon cutter, the first boring morticing machine, a mineral water bottler, a brawn moulder. a mica cutter and a ballot register and checker.
He also invented a device to automatically turn music sheets at the request of Sir A Mann who was at the time conducting at Crystal Palace. The audience displayed more interest in his device than the music and so stopped being used
