Who Invented the Prop?

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Who Invented the Prop? 
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• A Swiss immigrant living in London in 1935 called
  William Bill de Vigier had an idea for a
  telescopic, or adjustable steel prop which he
  felt would be a vast improvement on the common
  system of using lumber most contractors employed
  at the time. William was not a wealthy man and he
  struggled to scrape together enough finances to
  realize his ambition and so he turned to a
  solicitor called Arthur Crowe for help. The
  solicitor did help and William founded his small
  company for which he was extremely grateful to
  his patron, leading him to decide 

William Bill de Vigier
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• The lawyer who organized the founding of my
  company was a certain Mr Arthur Crowe. That gave
  me the idea for the name of the company. What
  particularly appealed to me was the fact that the
  name began with an A. The advantage was that
  the name Acrow would come first in any
  alphabetical list. Furthermore, the word Acrow
  is easy to pronounce in every language and is
  easy to remember. 

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• The new company started producing its new
  Acrow Prop and soon had its first client,
  reportedly a builder called Robert Mc Alpine. As
  we know the company and its new product quickly
  caught on and the company has enjoyed huge
  success over the last eighty years or so with
  most of the major manufacturers still making a
  variation of William De Vigiers famous Acrow Prop.
   

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