Textile Industry.

Textile Industry. Textile Industry. Collection of documents relating to Samuel Cunliffe Lister and Manningham (Lister) Mills, including a manuscript conveyance indenture on vellum of a mill property in Keighley, sold by Cunliffe Lister to Prince Smith the Elder, for £14,000, dated 9th August 1869; a settlement of a lawsuit in 1890 in which Lister and his Company sued Herny, Thomas and Bejamin Duckworth, claiming that they corruptly won contracts through commissions, presents and bribes to Lister's servants and foremen - the Duckworths agreed to pay £3100 in total, ink manuscript on vellum; an assignment of trademarks - Samuel Cunliffe Lister sells his registered trademarks to his own company, 1st June 1889, manuscript on vellum; an agreement for service between Cunliffe Lister and José Reixach, 1889, manuscript and printed; an assignment of a patent, 3rd October 1889, Charles Octavius Paget sells the rights for an invention for "Improvement of Plushes", manuscript on vellum; and others, leases, trademarks, mortgages, mostly 1870-1889, plus a group of Trade Mark Acts documents, 1920s, manuscript and printed, paper and vellum. (c. 86 documents). Samuel Cunliffe Lister (1815-1906), later Baron Masham, was one of Victorian Britain’s most successful industrialists. Lister was a pioneer in textile manufacturing who held over 150 patents for innovations in silk and wool processing. He invented the Lister nip comb, which revolutionised the textile manufacturing industry. Lister Mills (also known as Manningham Mills) was completed in 1873 and was the largest silk factory in the world. dated 9th August 1869, ink manuscript on vellum, manuscript on vellum, 1889, manuscript and printed, nd others, leases, trademarks, mortgages, mostly 1870-1889, plus a group of Trade Mark Acts documents, 1920s, manuscript and printed, paper and vellum. Samuel Cunliffe Lister (1815-1906), later Baron Masham, was one of Victorian Britain’s most successful industrialists. Lister was a pioneer in textile manufacturing who held over 150 patents for innovations in silk and wool processing. He invented the Lister nip comb, which revolutionised the textile manufacturing industry. Lister Mills (also known as Manningham Mills) was completed in 1873 and was the largest silk factory in the world

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