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Image shows a cutter operating a large machine band knife at the wholesale clothing manufacturing firm of John Barran & Sons Ltd. in Chorley Lane. This was the oldest clothing manufacturer in the world and one of the first to bulk cut and fully fuse boys' and girls' blazers as seen in this image. He is cutting a black, non-woven fusible interlining for blazer fronts, thirty layers deep. Before safety measures were introduced to fit a safety cover over the blade, many fingers and thumbs were lost. The fabric was always towards the knife. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Chorley Lane John Barran & Son Ltd | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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