Handbook of Birmingham Prepared for the Members of the British Association 1886

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Author(s) Unknown
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1886
Pages 378pp; illus
Publisher The association
Place Published Birmingham

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Contains a chapter on 'Manufacturing industries' [pp150-212, 346-52] describing a wide range of local industries at the time of publication. Deal at length with products manufactured and certain manufacturing processes, and updates the accounts provided on Birmingham manufacturing published in 1865 on the occasion of the last visit of the British Association to Birmingham as Samuel Timmins, 'Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District'