Armley Mills

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Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills
Textilmaskin för spinning
Arthur Heaton ångmangel, 1929

Armley Mills var en yllefabrik i Leeds i Storbritannien. Under Benjamin Gott blev den världens största yllefabrik.

Armley Mills köptes 1969 av Leeds stad och är numera Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills.

Historik

Armley Mills nämns första gången 1559, då Richard Booth hyrde den av Henry Savile.

Källor

Brears, Peter Charles David (1984?). Armley Mills - the Leeds Industrial Museum. Huntingdon: Leeds City Museums. ISBN 0-907588-04-2 

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Författare/Upphovsman: Photograph by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. (www.clemrutter.net)., Licens: CC BY-SA 3.0
The Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills is on the River Aire and fronts onto the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. When built in 1805 it was the largest woollen mill in the world with 18 fulling stocks and 50 looms. It contains a collection of textile machines.

Arthur Heaton Rotary Press 1929. The cloth was fed under a continuously rolling heated steam roller. The base plate was flat and could be adjusted for differnt thicknesses of cloth.

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Armley Mills, Leeds This current mill replaced an earlier mill that in its turn had been built in 1788 as reputedly the largest fulling mill in the world. This structure was built 1805-7 by Benjamin Gott as a 4 storey, 23 bay "fireproof" mill. The earliest known such structure in the woollen branch and the oldest surviving Yorkshire example of the type in all branches. It is now home to the leeds Industrial Museum.
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1904 Platt built condensor mule (self-actingb) at Armley Mills Industrial Museum near Leeds, Yorkshire , used for spinning wool. This mule is ungaited (not see up).