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Handbook of Birmingham: Prepared for the Members of the British Association, 1886
British Association for the Advancement of Science
Birmingham (England); Natural history -- England -- Birmingham
PITCH, RESIN.--Soap, electro-plate, tin-plate, bedstead, carriage
furniture, printing and lithography, thimble, paper, brassfounding,
wholesale boot and shoe trade.
VARNISHES (COPAL, MASTIC, JAPAN, PONTYPOOL).--30 or 40 varieties are
known in the trade, the names often implying the purpose for which
the varnish is used as coach-body varnish, oak varnish, undercoating,
finishing, &c. Coach and carriage works, house decoration, furniture,
tin-plate, papier mâché, bedstead, coffin furniture, fog signal cases,
iron hollow-ware, enamel leather.
LEATHERS AND FABRICS.
BASIL or SHEEP SKIN, BUFFALO, BULL NECK, CALF, CROCODILE, COW
HIDE, DOG FISH, DONKEY, GNU, HORSE HIDE, KANGAROO, PIG SKIN,
RUSSIAN, SKIVERS, CHAMOIS, or WASH LEATHER, SEA HORSE, or WALRUS,
VELLUM.--Wholesale saddlery and leather trades generally, wholesale
boot and shoe trade, polishing in the metal trades, parts of articles
in the electro-plate, tin plate, whip, and many other trades.
BUCKRAM, CLOTH, FLANNEL, PLUSH, SATIN, SILK, VELVET.--Railway carriage
works, tin plate, brassfounding, button, needle, optical instrument,
cocoa, leather trades.
FELT.--Corrugated iron, brassfounding, light brass rolled metal works,
railway carriage works, printing and lithography, electro-plate, art
metal, optical instrument, glass polishing.
PAPER.--Paper box trade, papier mâché, wrapping up in all trades.
WOODS.
ASH, BAYWOOD, BEECH, BIRCH, ELM, FIR, MAPLE, OAK, PINE, TEAK.--One or
more of them used in most trades, railway carriage, cabinet, tin plate,
brass founding, edge tools, clog, electro-plate.
BEEF WOOD.--Gun trade, ramrod.
BLACKTHORN.--Whip.
BOXWOOD.--Used in metal trades, generally for chocks.
CEDAR.--Railway carriage, cabinet, pen and penholder, needle, art
metal, optical instrument.
COCUS WOOD.--Optical instrument.
EBONY.--Gun, gas fitting, brass founding, button, electro-plate, tool,
art metal, railway carriage.
HICKORY.--Whip, rolled metal, needle, ferrule, railway carriage.
HOLLY.--Tool, whip.
HOLDER WOOD.--Clog.
LANCEWOOD, PARTRIDGE WOOD, SATIN WOOD, SNAKE WOOD.--Gun, clog, whip,
needle, pen and penholder, brass founding, optical instrument.
LIGNUM VITÆ.--Button, whip, brass founding, art metal, rolled metal,
tool, corkscrew.
MALACCA CANE.--Gold beating.
MAPLE.--Gun, railway carriage, cycle and sewing machine, brass founding.
PEACH.--Electro-plate.
PEAR.--Coal mining, glass, printing and lithography.
ROSEWOOD.--Gun, railway carriage, cabinet, printing and lithography,
pen and penholder, electro-plate, tool.
SYCAMORE.--Railway carriage, electro-plate, printing and lithography,
art metal.
TULIP.--Art metal.
WALNUT.--Gun, electro-plate, brass founding, railway carriage, cabinet,
pen and penholder, art metal, matchet.
YEW.--Whip.
ZEBRA.--Button, electro-plate, pen and penholder, optical instrument.
DYE STUFFS.
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