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Stanwell Pipes

In 1940's Denmark, pipes were virtually impossible to import due to Nazi occupation.  At that time English tobacco and English made pipes were the preference.  The Danes made do with growing their own tobacco.

Briar for pipes, on the other hand, couldn't be grown.  A man named Poul Nielson began making pipes out of beech wood.  It wasn't exactly traditional or English, but it kept the pipe smokers of Denmark happy during the war.

After the war, Nielson's pipes couldn't compete with the English imports.  So he changed the name of his company to sound more English.  The Stanwell name, which Nielson eventually took for himself, was chosen from a list of "English" sounding names.  He also marked his pipes with the very English Hansom Cab logo.  These simple changes allowed his pipes to stay on the market and compete with the English imports.