'Early economic ventures of the company' in C Binfield & D Hey (eds), Mesters to Masters. A history of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire
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- Author(s) Pollard, Sidney
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1997
- Pages pp50-62
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
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Examines the initiatives of the Company in establishing commercial ventures of benefit to its constituents - eg establishment of a warehouse in 1680s through which all products would in future be sold; acquisition of quarries for grindstones; establishment of a cementation furnace in 1759. Also initiatives which would have spin offs for the wider community, eg promotion of road and canal improvements