Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class 7.: John Kerr and Co

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1519. KERR, JOHN, and CO., Douglas Foundry, Dundee.

5-roller calendar for finishing cloth, with equalizing screws attached.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE FOLLOWING MACHINES:-

Preparing machines for spinning flax, hemp, and jute; power looms for linen, canvas, and jute fabrics; Cox's patent weft winding machines, and all preparing machines for weaving.

Washing mills for yarn and cloth, rollers for immersing yarn in chemicals, squeezers, pans for boiling yarn or cloth by steam, yarn softening machines, bluing machines, and all machines for bleaching cloth and yarn. Calenders, beetles, cropping machines, measuring machines, rolling machines, drying machines, damping machines, mangles, hydraulic presses and pumps, and all machines for finishing and packing linen cloth,

Grinding mills, saw mills, and gas works; water wheels, turbines, pumps; and all kinds of millwright work.

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