Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2022
Date 11-Feb
Volume 228
Issue 4,684
Page 256
Category An Engineer's Day Out
Part 2
Title King Cotton. Weaving at Queen Street Mill
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Visits an authentic, and still operating, weaving mill in Burnley. Specialist looms, Terry towelling loom, Northrop, Jacquard loom, 'Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time', 1908 Franco-British exhibition, loom developments, Rapier loom, shutting down, other processes, problems at work, telescopic Rapier loom by Adolf Saurer, Renee Flynn, post war poster, thanks to, other places of interest in the area, shuttle making workshop, Kirk and Co.