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THE International Wool Secretariat has for the past ten years given increasing support to the University of Leeds for research on wool ; it has now made a gift of £10,000 for the purchase of equipment for the new Textile Laboratories, all the apparatus to be utilized for the benefit of the wool industry. At present, five men hold Secretariat fellowships in the Department, and in addition, a grant of £1,600 a year has been made during the past two years in support of research in textile engineering. The number of workers engaged on these and other wool research projects is now so great that a severe strain has been thrown on the laboratory accommodation. In 1946, however, the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers of London made a grant of £20,000 towards the building of new wool research laboratories, and a start on the work was made in December 1947. The ground floor of the new building will be used to extend the Cloth Finishing Section of the Department, while the first floor will contain several laboratories for wool research workers. The second floor will take the form of one large laboratory, which will be used to give undergraduates practical experience of the applications of chemistry at all stages of the manufacture of wool textile materials. The grant of £10,000 from the International Wool Secretariat is for the equipment of the new building and will be used to purchase the most modern types of machinery for the Finishing Section, as well as the special apparatus which will be needed by research workers and undergraduates.
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Textile Laboratories at Leeds. Nature 161, 305 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161305c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161305c0