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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Thats a big jump from being a blacksmith, to pattern maker then iron founder, and all the necessary tools and materials.
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It may be that, being self-employed, he employed others to carry out his ideas.
As a little lad, I recall my dad telling me and my teenage aunts that wooden rollers were better than the rubber ones , made by the Pioneer factory, for squeezing tripe. On a trip to Beamish museum this year, I saw a wooden-roller mangle made by Taywil, (Taylor & Wilson of Clayton) so wood must have been used as late as the 1930s I think. I believe that the Pioneer works went into liquidation because the firm had not 'moved with the times' and gone into modern products.