"Invented in the 1960s, it was a device which became an aspirational product for the British middle classes. The Corby electric trouser press - still a common feature of hotel bedrooms up and down the country - banished 'baggy knees' and gave its users a sense of crisp satisfaction. The press's inventor, Peter Corby, who has died aged 97, was inspired to develop his product's electrical heating pad after a chance meeting with a Concorde aeronautical engineer. His device, which is still made in Britain, has become a target for satirists. Born in Leamington Spa in July 1924, Mr Corby joined the Royal Air Froce's Volunteer Reserve in September 1943 and was mobilised in February 1944, according to The Telegraph; After training as a flight engineer, he flew in the Halifax bomber as part of 78 Squadron in the final weeks of the war in Europe. After the war, Mr Corby returned to the skies in 1948, flying in a Lincoln bomber." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9914149/Electric-trouser-press-inventor-Peter-Corby-dies-aged-97.html
