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Description: | C1915.
View of a steam wagon in the yard of Prospect mill on Victoria Road, one of the textile firm of J & S Rhodes Ltd, who also owned queens Mill and Valley Mill. The wagon was used to transport bales of rags, sheets of blend, skeps of weft, slubbing bobbins, warp beams and unfinished cloth between the three mills. Built by the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co. of Hunslet, thes wagons were known as "Steam Pigs" and had a maximum speed of 8 miles per hour.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | steam wagon Prospect Mill | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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