Penny Venetian Red of "POSTAGE" and "ONE PENNY" that its predecessors bore. It was decided that a new colour would also be desirable to defend against improper re-use; a fugitive lilac ink was used that would run and spoil the stamp if one attempted to wash off the cancellation. The Lilacs broke the tradition of using corner letters and instead had either fourteen or sixteen dots in each corner. Penny Venetian Red The Penny Venetian Red was a British postage stamp equal to the value of one penny. Issued in 1880, it was designed and surface-printed by security printing company De La Rue.
Penny & Giles Penny & Giles Penny & Giles (P&G) was a British engineering company in Dorset (former Hampshire) that made flight recorders (black boxes). The company was founded in 1956 by Prof William Alfred Penny and James Giles. It made high-reliability wire-wound potentiometers for aircraft in flight testing. In 1957 it made the first aircraft data recorder with magnetic recording on a stainless steel wire, known as a "black box". In 1963, the Ministry of Aviation informed the UK aircraft industry that all civil airliners would have to have flight data recorders. In April 1973, Penny and Giles Conductive Plastics received a