http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/aylmer_vallance en http://www.newstatesman.com/200608070056 http://www.newstatesman.com/200608070056 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT Aylmer Vallance Taken from the New Statesman archive, 26 May 1951. This visit to a factory floor in Walthamstow is also, I guess, a return to the nursery floor of the writer's childhood. Aylmer Vallance (1892-1955), a Scot, was a long-time deputy editor of the New Statesman. He had been a real soldier himself, serving in both world wars, though not in a bright uniform but in military intelligence. As for Britains, the brand survives in US ownership, selling soldiers made in China mainly to collectors. Selected by Brian Cathcart

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