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Dualit
Dualit is a British manufacturer of coffee and tea capsules, kitchen and catering equipment and is best known for its range of heavy-duty toasters. The Dualit Classic Toaster is regarded as a design classic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=madabaoutthehouse.com )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=royaldesign.com )〕 Although it was primarily designed for the commercial catering market, it became trendy in the 1990s as a domestic product〔 and was described by Bill Deedes in ''The Observer'' newspaper as a "symbol of the kitchen porn 90s".
== Origins ==
Dualit was founded in 1945 by the German-born inventor Max Gort-Barten CBE (1914–2003) and was incorporated as Dualit Ltd in 1948. Max's first commercial product was an electric heater which he named Dual-Lite (from which the company took its name) as it could deflect heat to two parts of a room.〔 〕
In 1952 Max designed a commercial six-slot toaster with a manual eject leaver in his factory in Camberwell, south east London. In 1954 the Government compulsory-purchased the factory and gave Max money to build a new factory in Bermondsey, just off the Old Kent Road. Other products followed and demand exploded. Eventually, their London base proved too small for them and in 2003 the company moved to its present site in Crawley, West Sussex.〔(The Telegraph September 5th, 2014 )〕 They currently occupy 60,000sq foot with further expansion planned.〔(Crawley Borough Council )〕
Max’s son Leslie joined the company in 1972 and is now Managing Director. Leslie is a trained engineer and worked making metal press tools before joining Dualit. Leslie’s son Alex is now a company director, having trained in product design. Before coming to Dualit, he worked as a product designer in both London and Hong Kong.
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