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A History of the County of Shropshire
… established as one of the country's leading wrought iron makers, its products including bar, flat, cable, rivet, and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… innovation and mechanization, for instance the MASHING MACHINE and the use of steam, for example [Patents (1784)], …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Co., had become an industrial estate, used by a firm of machine-tool engineers and as a distribution centre by other … were used as a saw-mill. 20 By 1911 a firm of piano-makers, called Gladman & Co. and later the Stroud Piano Co., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and from 1788 belonged to the Churchill family, cabinet makers and auctioneers. 84 On the death of Benjamin …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but purpose-built factories were not introduced until machine stitching became general in the later 19th century. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Woodstock but expensive gloves in Oxford. 64 The known makers of the gloves given regularly by the university to … male glovers in the whole county outside Oxford. 54 Some machine stitching had been introduced by 1871, when there … by deer and sheep skin gloves by Elizabeth Money and a machine for separating and cleaning seeds designed by John …
A History of the County of Oxford
… among the town's glovers and in 1831 a group deported for machine breaking included Woodstock men. 10 The borough lost …