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Correspondence, newspaper cuttings and advertising leaflets relating to cricket clothing and cricket equipment, compiled by MCC Secretary Ronald Aird and MCC Assistant Secretary S C Griffith. Includes offers of MCC touring blazers from the Alec, Earl of Home [later Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home] which were passed on by MCC to J H Parsons and then returned to MCC as they did not fit Parsons, advice sent to cricket clubs and individuals recommending purchases of cricket equipment, letters to Simpson (Piccadilly) Ltd and Jaeger authorising past and present Test cricketers to purchase MCC touring clothing, requests for clothing and equipment from MCC, copy of the 'Sporting Broadsheet' clothing and equipment catalogue issued in Winter 1953, letter from Herbert Sutcliffe requesting a 'home England' tie, advertising brochure for the Thomas Twort and Sons 'Perfected Cover Cricket Ball', letters sent to Thomas Twort and Sons by MCC reporting on the performance of the balls, letters sent by MCC to counties asking them who manufactured the balls they used at Test matches against South Africa in 1955, letter from R T Simpson requesting a new MCC sweater, correspondence between MCC and H W Haydon of the Western Marine Company relating to Haydon's design of an 'improved cricket wicket' and his requests for the wicket to be used by MCC in matches at Lord's, advertising brochure for a 'Dreadnought' wicket cover produced by W R Fowlstone, correspondence with the Britain-China Friendship Association advising on cricket equipment to be purchased to send to China in 1956, copy of article by R A Lyttleton titled 'On the Swerve of a Cricket Ball' discussing the history of a cricket ball's movement.

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