At 00:28 19/02/2009, Peter Hutchison wrote:
>Wide foil such as we use is probably post World War 2. I can't remember it
>before the war but that is not conclusive.
Large quantities of of aluminium foil, or foil backed paper, were
dumped over western Europe during the 2nd World War as 'chaff' a
radar counter-measure (the British code-name was 'Window').
Peter
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