UK Cigar Scene Magazine September Issue 9 | Page 15

Cigar History from Tobacco September 1940
Helping with the War Effort
Tobacconists in some Lancashire towns notably St Helens, Widnes, Preston, Warrington and Blackpool are inviting
customers to put any loose copper they may have into a box towards the purchase of a Spitfire.
The Southern Rhodesian tobacco industry has sent £3,750 to the ministry of aviation of aircraft production, Lord
Beaverbrook, as a contribution towards building an aircraft

Tobacco Names Make News
Suspense is ended, Lieut- Colonel George Taylor, Duke
of Wellington’s Regiment previously reported missing, is
now officially listed as a prisoner of war.
The Colonel, who for 20 years was with the West Riding
Territorials is a partner and Director of Jackson and
Taylor Ltd cigar manufacturers and merchants of
Huddersfield and also a director of R and J Hill Ltd.
Hunting is, 0 r was I should say, his recreation. He is
a member of the Badsworth and the Brookwood two of
Yorkshire is best known hunts.

Peter joined the 4th Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
(TA) just before the war, was posted to HQ signals and
was among the first to be sent to France on June 22nd
the war office announced he was missing, later amended
to prisoner of war he is only 19 and all who know him
fee l that his good spirits and health will help him to
enjoy his ordeal.
Curiously enough his father was twice reported killed in
action once in the Boer War and again in the Great War.

Reported prisoner of war in Germany L/Cpl Peter
Hield, son of Victor Hield proprietor of Stanilands old
established tobacconist, Broad Street, Oxford.

The Smoke Gallery
By A Genial Gossip
So What is the most important room in the Houses of
Parliament? The Prime Minister’s? The chief whips?
My answer is the smoke room. That is where MPs love
to talk things over, shape their plans, resolve on their
crusades. That is where Cabinet ministers can learn
over a cigarette, a cigar, a pipe, what is in the minds of
the backbenchers.
Mr Churchill even in these tremendous likes to take a
talk in the smoke room; he is a good mixer, perhaps the
least aloof of Prime Ministers.

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