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The history of the raincoat |
The Mannex Directory of Mid-Lancashire has an entry for W. Smith as a manufacturer 'of waterproof cloths, pipings, and washers'. The address is printed as 'Golded hill works', which I think we must read as 'Golden Hill Works.
I would like to know the relationship between this enterprise and the one that later moved to Golden Hill works, eventually becoming the Leyland & Birmingham Rubber Co., Ltd (listed below in 1907)
Barrett's Directory of Preston [and hinterland], 1907 lists under
India Rubber Manufactures:
Leyland & Birmingham Rubber Co., Ltd, Golden Hill works Tel 11.
Whitehead & Roberts, Ltd., Ajax Rubber Works
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