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Introduction

Mono bug clamp - a simple pegging device

66 million clothes pegs a year from three people and a 20 metre square factory!

This product idea - and its development into high-volume manufacture - revolved around just one man, Ivor Langford. From his early days in employment, Ivor had nursed an ambition to become self-employed and run his own company (since seeing the boss's son driving around in his Rolls Royce!).

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