ROSA GALLEMÍ BALAGUÉ-ANTONIO PUIG S.A. 9TH DELIVERY

                                

                                                      

                              Plan of our J-7 wick lighter, one of the first we manufactured

                                                    

                               Industrial Census of my company in Barcelona in the 50s

As this document from the Barcelona Industry Delegation from the 1950s shows, my husband and I were providing the data on our industry, indicating the figure of 50,000 lighters that we planned to produce annually.

Indeed, in the 1950s we were already producing Wick type lighters and Gasoline Flask lighters under our JUTSON brand. They were very cheap and quite simple products, but they always worked, without breakdowns. Flamagas did not yet exist and the Puigs did not know this technical sector, since they were focused on their Colonies. Several years would pass before they began their activities in this very different sector, copying our technique on many occasions.

                                                    

                                                       

                                                                     J-7 wick lighter

  

                                   

                                                Petaca J-1 lighter the 1st we produce

                                   

                                        Photo and detail of a Jutson catalog from the 50s

We also patented and produced the windproof lighter whose flame never went out, the Armada, our Jutson 3 model and some more automatic models, such as the Jutson 6 model, all of them running on gasoline.

                                             

                                 

                                                     Jutson 3 model Armada windshield

                                    

                                                                    Model Jutson 6

In the 1950s, all of society was trying to forget the war we had experienced and although we dedicated ourselves to working as many hours as possible, including Saturday and Sunday mornings, we also tried to find time to go out to dinner at restaurants in the Barceloneta and dance at places like El Cortijo on Avenida Diagonal. I fondly remember my dear friends Asunción Melé and Emilio Gardes, godparents of my youngest son, Joan and Angeleta Pinos, Drs. Russinyol and Hernandez, from Manresa, to Montserrat and Joaquim Borrás, with whom we celebrated the usual festivals and especially with the members of Mas Guinardo. I remember that the Borras, who lived next to my uncle's factory on Calle del Art, lent an office with a telephone in his house to Antonio Puig Castelló, since he did not have a telephone at that time.

                                           

                                                With my remembered friend Asunció, years 50

                                       

   Joan and Angeleta Pinos, my husband and I and Emili Gardés and Asunció Melé at El Cortijo

                                        

                                         In Barceloneta with my husband, Asunció and Emili

                                         

                   My uncle Francesc Castelló Carreras and two of my children in Vic, the 1950s

                                        

        With my uncles Francesc Castelló Carreras, Elisa Balagué Sans, my husband and two of my                                                                       children in his house on Calle Arts