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Product details
- ISBN 9780852637319
- Weight: 96g
- Dimensions: 149 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2002
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book describes the rapid growth of the charcoal industry up to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and how the emphasis of development changed to the production and refining of charcoal's by-products - acetic acid, tar and wood spirit - for the textile industry and the rapidly growing chemical industries.
D W Kelley has been involved in the charcoal industry for many years. He joined the oldest and largest British manufacturer, Shirley Aldred & Company Ltd, in 1959 was Managing Director from 1969 to 1983. He has been Chairman of the former National Associatin of Charcoal Manufacturers and is Chairman of the British Charcoal and Coppice Group.
