The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new (1907)
Blair, Matthew, d. 1908 · Paisley, A. Gardner · leaf 79
r wereapplied for, far in excess of the amounts required. But timebrought about a startling revulsion. Not one of all thesecombines had the staying power of Coats. They quickly gotinto difficulties, and most of them had a long and weary road 74 The Paisley Thread to travel on the good old lines of… … CoAis Mills at Ferguslie. able and legitimate success of the innocent cause of all thisspeculative mania. The mills of the Coats Combination in Paisley cover ahundred acres of ground. They possess an aggregate engineforce of thirty thousand horse power—requiring a daily con- Present Position of the…
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