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PART THREE – The Bosclip Hair Trimmers and Shavers
It’s not clear when Joe Boseley started business.
The earliest newspaper advertisements I have found date to early 1961.

At this time the company name was the Boseley Clipper Company
who operated from 45-47 Meeks Road at Marrickville, in Sydney’s Inner West.

I’m guessing that Joe capitalised on the post-war consumer market, and was
selling domestic hair clippers under the ‘Boseley’ brand, repairing all makes
of clippers, and selling hair dressing equipment.

In other words, the domestic hair clipper was Boseley’s first product and
it was branded as a ‘Bosclip’.



The Bosclip hair clippers would, over time, morph into a set (with ‘revolutionary’
and ‘magic’ combs). I’m not sure if the clipper was sold continuously, but it was
certainly being sold throughout the 1960s. However, I have found ads up to 1990!

At no stage do I believe this clipper was made by Boseley. Clearly of North American
design, it was probably an imported and rebranded product. The evidence bears
this out, with a company name change made in late 1961 or early 1962.

A related product was the Bosclip Combina, an electric shaver, of the mid-1960s.
That product seemed short-lived.

TO BE CONTINUED …