Peter Stubs and the Lancashire Hand Tool Industry

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See the writer's master's thesis 'Peter Stubs and the Lancashire Hand Tool Industry (to 1840)', MA, Manchester University, 1972. Deals with the business from its origins to 1840, covering some of the ground of T S Ashton, 'An Eighteenth Century Industrialist'; 1939. Has chapters: 'The products and their markets'; 'The backcloth'; 'The characters' - ie profiles of individual members of Stubs family; 'Lancashire tool makers and Peter Stubs'; 'The new workshop'; 'The country hands'; 'Some customs of the trade and practices of the firm'; 'Communications'; 'Prices and pricing policy'; 'Distribution'; 'Settlement'; 'Hazardous journeys'; 'The imitators'; 'Wire'; The Rotherham steel works'; 'The sidelines - miscellaneous, glass, stays, slates, pins'; 'The White Beare Inn'. An extensive appendix lists by name and location 'Operatives producing files, watch and clock tools and clock movements' as mentioned in Peter Stubs's papers