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Primary sources

Franz Carl Achard, Chemische-Physische Schriften, Berlin, 1780

William E.A.Axon (ed), The Annals of Manchester - A Chronological Record From Earliest Times to the End of 1885, Manchester, 1886, John Heywood

William H. Brock, The Fontana History of Chemistry, London, 1992, Fontana, ISBN 0 00 686173 3

Charles de la Condamine, Abstract of his 1736 Report to the French Academy, Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, 1751

Charles de la Condamine, Mémoire on the work of François Fresneau, Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, 1751

Charles Goodyear, Gum-Elastic and its Varieties, New Haven, 1855, Published for the Author.

Charles Goodyear and Thomas Hancock, Centennial Volume of Writings, American Chemical Society, 1939

Thomas Hancock, Personal Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Caoutchouc or India-Rubber Manufacture in England, London, 1857, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts

S. Levitt, ''Manchester Mackintoshes: A History of the Rubberized Garment Trade in Manchester', in: Textile History 17, 1986, p. 51.

Aernoud Julians, Dissertatio Chemica Inuguralis de Resina Elastica Cajennensis, Utrecht, 1780

George Macintosh, Biographical Memoire [of Charles Macintosh, his father], privately printed, 1847

James MacLehose, Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men, Glasgow Digital Library, 1st published Glasgow, 1886, James MacLehose & Sons

Secondary sources

Anonymous, 'The Story of Rainwear', Part 1 Atomage 26, London, 1979 - Part 2, Atomage 27, London, 1980, Part 3 Atomage 28 London, 1980.

A three-part study based on 'a collection of catalogues and press-cuttings' forming 'a complete history going back 150 years [ie from the Eighteen-thirties]'

Avon Rubber Company Website (as at 15:03:07)

E. Chapel, Le Caoutchouc et la Gutta-Percha, Paris, 1892

William C. Geer, The Reign of Rubber, New York, 1922.

David Hunt, History of Leyland and District, Preston, 1990, Carnegie Press, pb ed. (Extract on the rubber industry in Leyland)

John Loadman, Bouncing Balls website, accessed 16:01:07.

William Woodruff, The Rise of the British Rubber Industry During the 19th Century, Liverpool, 1958, Liverpool University Press.

Leyland Historical Society website, accessed 16:01:07

SSL-International website, accessed 16:01:07

George Stewart, Curiosities of Glasgow Citizenship, Glasgow Digital Library Edition. (First published Glasgow, 1881, James Maclehose: Publisher to the University.)

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