Collinson, Burton & Co.'s West Riding worsted directory : containing the history of the worsted trade, and historic sketch of Bradford, written specially for this work by Edward Collinson.

Format:

Book

Series:

Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914.

The Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914

Language:

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Woolen and worsted manufacture--Great Britain--Directories.

Woolen and worsted manufacture.

Woolen and worsted manufacture--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 455, 95 pages) : illustrations.

Manufacture:

D. Burton

Other Title:

Collinson, Burton and Compnay's West Riding worsted directory

Collinson, Burton and Co.'s West Riding worsted directory

West Riding worsted directory

Place of Publication:

Bradford [England] : Collinson, Burton & Co., 1851.

Notes:

Reproduction from the The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Advertising material: [4] p., 1st count, 95 p., 3rd count.

"Topographical notices of the principal [sic] manufacturing localities, a general alphabetical classification, and trades' classification of Bradford woolstaplers, machinists, spinners, dyers, merchants, &c., and of similar parties attending the Bradford market from all the surrounding districts : a separate directory each for Leeds, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax, Bingley, Keighley, Kildwick &c., and Colne in Lancashire, list of bankers, an account of every conveyance by rail and watter, with a variety of other information of a local and general character : to which is prefixed a tabular sheet or the worsted compendium, comprehending returns of worsted factories for Great Britain and Ireland, tables of wools imported and exported, proportion of worsted mills in the West Riding of Yorkshire, aggregate estimate of horse power (by water and steam), total numbers of spindles, looms, &c., in operation, a general summary of British textil manufactures, extent of manufactures in the British Colonies, &c., &c."

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Learning, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

OCLC:

797289069

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.