Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
of Comb's Tannery, Stowmarket.
By 1914 Webb and Son (Combs) Ltd
1937 George Watkins photographed the tannery's elderly single cylinder grasshopper engine, which had been installed secondhand in 1875. The cylinder was replaced in 1920. The exhaust steam was used for process heating.[1]
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