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A Vintage (1950's) Henselite Home Carpet Biased Bowl (never played with) in origanal box with rules SEE ALL PHOTO's and read more .
Product Description
Each boxed set consists of eight fully biased 2.5" carpet bowls with identifying coloured discs jack and rules of play.
All you need extra is a smooth carpet on which to play to give hours of endless enjoyment at home
Complete with 8 bowls - 4 black & 4 brown
Jack and rules.
The full-sized game in miniature.
For Home Use On Lounge Carpet
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William D. Hensell started the Henselite Company in 1918. In a time when all bowls were made of wood.However with forward thinking and an agreement with the Dunlop Rubber Company he developed and produced the world's first rubber bowls.
Once the contract with Dunlop ended, William and his son Raymond turned their attention to developing bowls made from a new kind of material that would not expand and contract with temperature changes. After much experimentation they decided upon a plastic called Phenolformaldehyde and in 1931 the first solid plastic bowl was produced, changing the face of bowls forever.
These original bowls were called Henselites and were made with separate coloured discs inserted into the bowls to allow bowlers to differentiate their bowls from others and In 2008, Henselite became the first manufacturer to produce 7 million bowls.
This unplayed vintage boxed set of Henselite carpet biased bowls consists of eight fully 2.5" carpet bowls, with identifying coloured discs, jack and rules of play. All you need extra is a smooth carpet on which to play and you will have hours of endless enjoyment at home.
When bowls production resumed after the war years on 6th February 1946, Raymond W Hensell who by this time had taken over the management of the company from his father, installed a series of specially designed, high-precision turning and biasing machines.
At this point, the Uni-disc model was renamed as the Standard model.
In these post-war years, bowls consolidated its popularity as a mass participation sport.
With television yet to be introduced, there was also a demand for indoor recreational games for the whole family. In the early 1950's Henselite began to sell sets of "Junior Bowls". Later called "Home Carpet Bowls", these bowls remain popular today.
