Courtaulds. An economic and social history. Volume 2. Rayon
Details:
- Author(s) Coleman, Donald C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1969
- Pages 521pp; illus
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned history in three volumes. Volume 2 deals largely and notably with the development by Courtaulds of a highly important man made fibre business to 1941. In two parts, viz: 1] deals with early venture into man made fibres including search for silk substitute, artificial silk, international consortia, establishment of American Viscose Corp, reorganisation, war; 2] deals with the growth of the rayon industry, boom, depression, sale of American Viscose Corp in 1941 under wartime conditions. Includes notably much about American Viscose Corp from its establishment to its 1941 sale to US interests. Also covers British Celanese Ltd