The Competition
When I talked to Valerie Hunter Gordon recently, I asked her whether she was sure that Paddi was the first disposable nappy.
Perhaps there had been some other disposable nappy before she invented Paddi?
She looked at me in that way that the very old reserve for ignorant young fools and said
"If there had been something else suitable, then why would I have invented it?
There would have been no need would there?"
She continued
"I was a very busy mother, with 3 young children. I would have been delighted to find something else.
It would have saved me a lot of time and effort"
It was over 10 years afterwards, in 1961, that Victor Mills created Pampers in America.
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The Competition
