VILLAGE SUPPLIED
NELSON'S SAILS
1,000 MILES OF 4-NTI-NAZI HOSE
To fight the Nazis' rain of incendiaries on Britain one thousand miles of fire-horse have been turned -out the war began by the weavers in a ncfrth of England village.
Here craftsmen were weaving on "their hand looms two hundred year 3 before the mill from which it canie t)egan the manufacture of up-to-date canvas hose. The 3' made by hand the sailcloth, the tradition runs, for Nelson'si famous flagship ''Victory."
The mill in which their descendants work has produced more than -eight thousand miles of fire-hose by modern machine methods. One order was for two hundred miles of it.
It was in this same village that "two brothers, working in" a cellar, wove the first circular tube which ■■eventually le i to the making of flax ljosc-piping. They hit on the idea When Irving to discover a simpler -way of making purses.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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152VILLAGE SUPPLIED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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