Heath Robinson's nephew, art historian Peter Higginson was present ... to reassure a former Wren that she had been doing valuable war work." The Heath Robinson is on display at the National ...

The collection of 410 drawings and paintings were likely ... machine that pre-dated Colossus was named Heath Robinson. In the Falklands War, RAF mechanics lacked a chaff-dispensing mechanism ...

which includes many of his best-known WW1 and World War Two cartoons, was put up for sale in 2011. The 410 drawings and paintings have now been acquired by the William Heath Robinson Trust (WHRT).

making his drawings bolder, sharper and less cosy. “The Welsh Rarebit Machine” (1943) By the 1940s, Heath Robinson’s focus had shifted to the realities of war. His later books had titles ...

During the Falklands War, Royal Navy engineers dubbed their makeshift changes to the Sea Harrier aircraft the "Heath Robinson chaff modification". And in World War Two the machine created by ...

The Heath Robinson Museum will provide ... Last year, a collection of 410 drawings and paintings which included many of his best-known World War One and Two cartoons were saved for the nation ...

The war provided new inspiration for his devices and inventions, such as the ‘Pilsener-pump’ for stealing the enemy beer ration' During those years, Heath Robinson ran the two strands of his art – ...

William Heath Robinson (1872-1944 ... and the following year to make a series of 12 drawings showing the virtues of Chairman Tobacco. By the time the war [WWI] ended the market for serious ...

On loan from the Heath Robinson Museum, Heath Robinson at War runs from Saturday, January 20 to Sunday, April 14. The art gallery is open 11am-4pm (closing at 4.30pm from February 10) daily.

If the first world war has been characterised as the advent of mechanised slaughter, then Heath Robinson’s drawings are the antidote, in the form of gentle mechanised buffoonery. Corpulent ...

During the Falklands War, Royal Navy engineers dubbed their makeshift changes to the Sea Harrier aircraft the "Heath Robinson chaff modification". And in World War Two the machine created by ...