Echoes of the past: Looking back at the May 26 edition of Optician

This week the Echoes of the past turns the clock back 75 years with a look at the May 26 issue of Optician from 1939. The week the issue went to press, Pan-American Airways began a trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York and Adolf Hitler outlined his plans to move into Poland.

In his article Expansion is Possible, secretary of the Optical Board of Publicity and British Sight Efficiency Committee Frank Piggott outlined the areas where the profession could increases turnover. Piggott believed many opticians held the opinion that the 17,000,000 people that wore glasses represented the 'potential maximum,' but explained that many patients were not being serviced properly by practitioners.