Names NOT mentioned include:
Dr Ivan Cunneen: A physical chemist who contributed work on rubber oxidation and vulcanization. He and his wife were golfers.
Stan Stokes: Rubber technologist: sought unusual uses for rubber: amateur actor in Garden City productions. Maurice Porter expert in vulcanization chemistry: maintained a huge card index of references.
Alan Thomas: Physicist, lived in Hatfield. Widely regarded; recipient of medals.
Graham Lake: Physicist and cricketer.
Tom Pendle: Expert on latex vulcanization (accelerators may have led to early death); married an Irish/Indian whom he met when lecturing at Southgate College: Tom was a cyclist and worshipped at the Catholic Church in Digswell
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