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Title: Doubling at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00139
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Title
Doubling at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00139
Description
These machines are ring doubling frames, made by Howard & Bullough Ltd, Globe Works, Accrington, the world's largest maker of ring frames. They are making a folded (two or more folds) yarn. Bobbins from the bobbin winding frames are placed in the creel and the yarn drawn from the bobbins by the delivery rollers. Twist is inserted by revolving spindles and the yarn guided on to the tube or bobbin by a wire 'traveller' pulled around the steel ring.
Creator
Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. Publicity Dept.
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
1930s
Rights
PHDA - Co-operative Heritage Trust
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CWS00139.tif
Collection
Citation
Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. Publicity Dept., “Doubling at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00139,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/730.
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