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11 06, 2014

1966 Redundancy following Engineers strike

2024-05-13T10:29:06+01:00June 11th, 2014|Categories: Historical Documents|0 Comments

I should like to thank the employees who were not on duty today for giving up their spare time to attend this meeting. At the moment we have only one official shop steward and in view of the importance of my information, I thought it better that we meet as an entire factory. It's for [...]

1 06, 2014

1887 The comb-making process at Messrs. Stewart & Co. of Aberdeen

2024-05-03T10:26:42+01:00June 1st, 2014|Categories: Historical Documents|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Comb-making is necessarily a prominent and extensive industry, in which a considerable variety of materials are employed, the most common being the horns and  boots of cattle, tortoise-shell, ivory, box-wood, vulcanite or hardened Indian-rubber, and to a small extent German silver and other metals. Of these materials horn is by far the most extensively employed, and [...]

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