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2017.09.01Scope and Content
2 pages printed on in black and red ink and written on in black/brown ink. Pages are 20cm by 25cm and are watermarked with [ Hodckinson & Co.] in the bottom middle of each page. The printed (Stamped ?)
Buisiness corrispondence between John Haigh and the Rosamond Woollen Company regarding carding machines. Hand written regarding measurments and prices.
Transcription of 2017.09.01A is as follows:
PLEASE ADDRESS IN FULL
JOHN HAIGH & SONS LIMITED.
MAKERS OF
WOOLLEN MACHINERY
ESTABLISHED 1835
A | Code used
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS
HAIGHS, MACHINIST
HUDDERSFIELD
Priest Royd Iron Works,
Huddersfield Septr 16nd 1904
TELEPHONE No 111
To the Rosamond Woollen Compy
almonte , Ontario, Canada
Gentlemen
If you are about to order Carding machines, we shall be pleased to have your order. We enclose a print No 1149 which shows a set similar to what we have sent recently to preston, Ontario, it consists of 1 of our No 20 Hopper feeds, 1 scribbler 60” with Hand feed and 3 feed roller 2”, licker in 12” Breast 40” with 1 angle 6”, 3 strippers 4 ¾” 3 washers 9”, 1 fancy 12”, & 1 doffer 30”, 1 swift 50”, with 1 angle 6”, 4 strippers 4 ¾” 4 washers 9”, 1 fancy 12” and 1 doffer 30”, 1 fly comb, 1 scotch feed put up with a hamton sliver apperatus , 1 carder 60”, with 3 feed rollers 2”, licker in 9”, 1 fost swift 50” with 1 angle 6” 4 strippers 4 ¾” 4 workers 9”, 1 fancy 12” and 1 doffer 30”, 1 second swift 50” with 1 angle 6”, 3 strippers 4 ¾”, 3 workers 9” and 1 fancy 12”, 1 Double Doffer Tandem Condenser with 2 Iron doffers 20” 2 traversing strippers 3 ½”, 4 pairs of rubber leathers 12/14 ¾ & 8/8 ½ centres, to bring off the required number of threads, 2 intermediate raddles, and 2 heights of surface drums, and put up with our latest style of Excentrick rubbing motions & our latest style of drawing,
Transcription of 2017.09.01B is as follows:
PLEASE ADDRESS IN FULL
JOHN HAIGH & SONS LIMITED.
MAKERS OF
WOOLLEN MACHINERY
ESTABLISHED 1835
A | Code used
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS
HAIGHS, MACHINIST
HUDDERSFIELD
Priest Royd Iron Works,
Huddersfield __________ 190
TELEPHONE NO. 111. ( 2
We include strap guides and change which. Delivery in Liverpool packed in cases. In these machines the swifts, Breats & doffers are built with mahogany segments, and all the other rollers are covered with pine deal, except the doffers in condensers are Iron, If the strippers are Iron the cost is 12/0 each extra.
Our price for this set is the sum of [pound sign] 357,,00 on receipt of Bills of Gading.
We hope to have your order for this set or we ought to say that we should advise the set of machines with one swift part more in the scribbler as we consider it too small, the cost of 1 extra swift part complete would be [pound sign] 40,,0,,0 Mett extra.
Yours & C
John Haigh & Sons limited
Space required for the set of machines, standing end to end, allow a 2 foot space between scribbler end and the scotch feed is 45 feet long x 9 feet wide for 60”, ton average the spaces at each end of the machinesCollection
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Business & Commerce, Correspondence/Letter, Ottawa, John Haigh & Sons Ltd - Makers of Woollen Machinery, Rosamond Woollen Mill, Business dealsLocation
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