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A History of the County of Oxford
… Smiths' of England, attracted in part by easy access to car factories at Oxford, Coventry, and Birmingham, opened a motor accessory plant at the former De Havilland factory west … exported abroad. 24 Wesley Barrell expanded its furniture manufacture from the early 1960s, acquiring a national …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century, following an apparent acceleration in local cloth manufacture from the 1460s, 16 Witney was attracting wool … to trading in unfinished cloth and perhaps involvement in manufacture. 22 Emmot's eldest son Richard Wenman (d. 1534), … and master weavers more directly involved in local manufacture. 24 Probably the last prominent Stapler was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wool merchants and fulling mills, 12 suggest early textile manufacture and a dependent clothing trade (mercers, drapers, … in trade at Witney's market and fairs and in local cloth manufacture. Market and fair tolls, already variable during … or contraction should probably not be exaggerated. Textile-manufacture and trade in wool evidently continued, albeit at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Street by the 1850s and 1870s, and surviving as coach- and motor-body building firms in the 1930s. 89 Two or three … was manufactured at Farm Mill in the 1870s. 91 A motor garage and cycle works at West End, producing the so-called 'Witney cycle', and Long's cycle and motor stores on High Street, a successor of Pritchett's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the blanket industry and to a lesser extent on glove manufacture, and seems generally to have thrived despite a … maintenance unit at Brize Norton airfield or in the Oxford car factories, and there was already a perceived need for new … selling bedding and blankets but known later for furniture manufacture, was established by Thomas Wesley Barrell in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at the Leys and elsewhere. 290 Steady increase in motor traffic prompted calls for speed limits as early as … Mount Mills and railway station. 301 Plans to create a car park at Church Green in 1948 prompted strong public … buildings 'strung out drearily' on its south side, and a car park on the north; a community hospital and health centre …
A History of the County of Oxford
… industrial and market town primarily reliant on blanket-manufacture into a larger commercial centre with a diverse …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were being provided by the 1890s and warning signs for motor cars by 1905, and in 1919 the council sought imposition … unwilling to share the cost of extending the service. A motor engine, to whose upkeep the rural district council …