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Under Wilson's leadership, the staff of BRRA grew to nearly 300 and gained an international reputation in textiles research. The BRRA also offered annual Technological Scholarships in the Departments of Textiles at the University of Manchester and the University of Leeds.
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Consensus emerged that a merger between the BCIRA and BRRA was needed. BRRA's life ended with its merger with the BCRA to form the Cotton, Silk, and Man-Made Fibres Research Association in 1961, better known as the
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The Duke of Edinburgh opened the new BRRA laboratory at Heald Green on 11 May 1955. It cost £500,000. British Pathé filmed footage of research, at BRRA, on the strength of fabrics.
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Application of high-speed photography to textile problems, G. A. J. Orchard, R. A. Barker, British Rayon Research Association
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later Baron Porter of Luddenham, Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, and Nobel Laureate,
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was a research institute formed in 1946 by the British Rayon Federation and others. It was funded by the
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By at least 1955 it was apparent that there was potential for overlap in research with the work of the
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and by voluntary funds from industry to investigate the chemical and physical properties of
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Work from the Association included academic publication, that included papers by
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and rayon fabrics, using a wide range of laboratory and theoretical methods.
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The British computer industry: crisis and development By Tim Kelly, page 41
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The physics of rubber elasticity, L. R. G. Treloar Clarendon Press, 1958
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for his work at the BRRA. It was located near Ringway Airport in
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Index

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
rayon
John Wilson
CBE
Manchester
Heald Green
Manchester
Leslie Treloar
Andrew Donald Booth
Birkbeck
All Purpose Electronic Computers
Leonard Albert Wiseman
British Cotton Industry Research Association
Len Wiseman
Shirley Institute
LRG Treloar
George Porter
John Wilson
Cranfield Institute of Technology
Robin Bullough
Arthur S. Lodge
Leonard Albert Wiseman
"Cotton Industry (Development Council)"




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