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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: John Whitehead

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239. WHITEHEAD, JOHN, Preston, Lancashire — Inventor and Manufacturer.

A machine for the manufacture of draining-pipes and tiles, with screening apparatus for separating stones and roots from the clay. It will make pipes or tiles of any form or size, from 1 to 15 inches in diameter, and of any length to 27 inches.

New machine for making and pressing bricks.

Drain-pipe and tile-machine, with a clay-box at each end, so that tiles may be made at one end and clay screened at the other, or vice versa.

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