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Notebook compiled by Albert Edward Leak, 1895, containing specifications and data for the textile industry
Leak, Albert Edward (1875-1931)
1895
Includes some comparisons between British and French or Belgian practice
Albert Edward Leak of Lille and Leeds notebooks
Leak, Albert Edward (1875-1931)
1914-1931
On the manufacture of ropes, twines, and threads made from flax, hemp, jute, manila, and sisal at Fairbairn, Lawson, Combe Barbour, Hope Foundry, Leeds
Papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall
1749-1897
The papers in this collection consist largely of legal documents and correspondence, of which very many are copies or drafts. No attempt has been made to describe the latter more closely than as 'draf...
Additional papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall
1756-1897
The Leeds White Cloth Hall papers (MS 283) were listed in Handlist 2, now supplemented by the list on pp 484-517 of The West Riding Cloth industry : a catalogue of business records, compiled by Patric...