Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,711 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Warsop and Hill

From Graces Guide

of Nottingham

1887 Description and ilustrations of Warsop's carpet cleaning machine, the invention of T. and A. S. Warsop. It used jets of compressed air. 'A new plant for cleaning carpets under this process has recently been put down by the Manchester Pneumatic Carpet Cleaning Company, Richardson-street Works, Rochdale-road, Manchester, and is now in full and successful operation. This machinery, which includes an air compressor having an air cylinder 16 1/2 in. in diameter, has been designed, and is being introduced by H. Walker Hill, C.E., of Hampden-street, Nottingham.'[1]

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