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Old 28-01-2010, 10:53   #2
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Re: The wringer mangle.

'Another man who put Accrington on the map was Robert Tasker. Actually born in Whalley in 1812, he invented and built the first mangle - or the geared wooden roller wet clothes wringing machine, as it was called.'
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