Textiles 2 : transport + mech
- Created by: ARQ
- Created on: 16-06-22 18:04
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- Transport, Mechanisation and Linen Growth
- Railways
- 1831-51 population doubled
- Improvement of transport links needed
- To ensure success of cottage ind
- landlocked "Linen triangle" which prod much linen needed better routes to Belfast port
- Ulster canal system inadequate for the growing ind
- Late 1820s investment began
- 1838 first line opened: Lisburn to Belfast
- Increased access to send goods to foreign markets
- by 1900
- 90% pop linked
- 1k miles of line laid
- thanks to private investment
- Allowed for continuation of Linen's success as a cottage ind
- Ulster prospered + stabilised supply
- Increased security for foreign customers
- 1844-45 huge boom in investment
- by 1900
- 90% pop linked
- 1k miles of line laid
- thanks to private investment
- by 1900
- Mechanisation
- Wet-spinning
- Constant supply and competitive prices
- James&William Murland est first wet-spinning mill 1829
- late 1830s: 35 mills in Ulster
- Investors
- James&William Murland est first wet-spinning mill 1829
- Prominent
- Andrew Mullhollland
- employed 5k people
- biggest spinning company in the world
- employed 5k people
- Large industrial mills took advantage of new tech
- High availability of local flax cheaper than imported cotton
- Constant supply and competitive prices
- 40% of Linen exports sent to USA
- Allowed industry to meet high demands, have high profit, maintain low prod costs, protecting it from econ crash
- Wet-spinning
- Railways
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