In 1956, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNC) commissioned "The Birth of Aphrodite" for their ship "". Fleischmann carved the piece from a half-ton block of clear perspex built up from laminated sheets. For the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, Japan, he created a perspex fountain for the British Pavilion, entitled "Harmony and progress". In 1963, he featured in a British Pathe newsreel about perspex sculpture.