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Line 27: ==History== ===Early years=== The '''Hygena Cabinet Co. Ltd''' was established in 1925 in [[Liverpool]] by [[George Nunn]] and [[Len Cooklin]],<ref name=Freeman>{{cite book \| last = Freeman \| first = Judith \| title = The Fitted Kitchen: A Piece of Twentieth-century English Cultural History \| publisher = [[Berg Publishers]] \| year = 2003 \| isbn = 1-85973-699-8}}</ref> to make a variety of the then popular [[Hoosier cabinet]]s. As the Hoosier dwindled in popularity, so did the company's sales, resulting in the company's going [[bankrupt]] in 1938.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://acn.liveauctioneers.com/index.php/columns-and-international/kovels?start=35 \|title=Hoosier cabinet - "Hygena Cabinet Co., Ltd., Liverpool." \|publisher=liveauctioneers.com \|accessdate=24 July 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716190750/http://acn.liveauctioneers.com/index.php/columns-and-international/kovels?start=35 \|archivedate=16 July 2011}}</ref> Bought up by new investors,<ref name=Freeman/> it made produce for the [[War Office\|Ministry of War]] during [[World War II]]. Returning to civilian production, it became involved with the design and manufacture of kitchens for [[British post-war temporary prefab houses\|post-war temporary prefab houses]]. The [[Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)\|Ministry of Works]] had specified a set of design conformance instructions, while the majority of manufacturers were using former war-time scale facilities, which resulted in a preference for factory-based mass manufacture.

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