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UPDATE: This ad is still available.
I guess Texcel was a Scotch Tape competitor? Never heard of it.
“Approximate size: 5.5″x13.75″ (ad has not been removed from the 10.5″x13.75″ page)
Condition: Excellent”
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Texcel tape was produced by a division of Johnson & Johnson. I can remember those cans of tape.
In the 1920s, a small Detroit druggist had uncovered and was selling Johnson & Johnson surgical tape to a car manufacturer who used the tape for masking two-tone paint jobs. By 1927, Johnson & Johnson recognized the market potential for tape products in the industrial market and a small department was formed to market “masking tape”. Cellophane and paper tapes were soon developed for the industrial market. This new division of Johnson & Johnson was called the Revolite Corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permacel
Revolite also developed duck tape which has an interesting history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
In 1930, the magazine Popular Mechanics described how to make adhesive tape at home using plain cloth tape soaked in a heated liquid mixture of rosin and rubber from inner tubes.[8]
cellophane history here: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/cellophanetape.htm
And then there is the famous friction tape which would have been the soldiers friend and most likely used on jeeps also. http://wardogmilitaria.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65&products_id=5298
Great info. Thanks Steve!