This is a film made by J E Warburton of looms arriving at the textile mill of James Casson & Son Ltd, Norton Mills, Elland.  The machines are then shown being set up and in operation as the film presents the whole process of weaving. Title – New Plant Produced and photographed by J E Warburton The film begins showing the cover of a Saurer brochure for Broad Cloth Looms of 100w and 200w.  Different pages are on display, showing the design drawings and the specifications.  Then it shows a...

This is a film made by J E Warburton of looms arriving at the textile mill of James Casson & Son Ltd, Norton Mills, Elland.  The machines are then shown being set up and in operation as the film presents the whole process of weaving. Title – New Plant Produced and photographed by J E Warburton The film begins showing the cover of a Saurer brochure for Broad Cloth Looms of 100w and 200w.  Different pages are on display, showing the design drawings and the specifications.  Then it shows a quotation for 2nd March, 1948 and a confirmation order for 15th September, 1948, from James Crowther Ltd. of Elland. Intertitle – The looms, loaded into ferry wagons at Arbon in Switzerland and consigned to Elland.  Spares and moveable parts were cased and shipped in the same wagons, 10.8.50.  On 6th September 1950 advice for dispatch was received, 22nd September 1950. A goods train arrives at the Elland Station.  A shunter couples up a wagon with a shunting pole.  There is some shunting, with the shunter unhooking a wagon with a shunting pole.  The wagon label states ‘shunt with care’.  The continental wagons are stationed in a goods yard where the doors of one are opened revealing a loom inside.  This is next seen loaded onto a truck and driven down a cobbled side road towards an advertising hoarding for Parkinsons Pills.  At the mill the loom is unloaded with an overhead pulley. Intertitle – The looms were offloaded onto the railway trailer and transported to the mill.  There, they were lifted from the trailer by block and tackle from a traverse bogie running on a steel joist, moved into the mill and lowered onto rails.  They were then rolled to a predetermined position and the rollers removed.  The first . . . The loom is shown on the railway wagon, and then unloaded onto a trailer by the method described.  The trailer drives through Elland to the mill and is unloaded, with a workman stood on the wooden pallet holding it steady. Intertitle –  . . . . and the last. The same process takes place again, only this time filmed from above. Intertitle – Moveable parts stored on the under-platform were removed and fitted. Workers from the mill remove and fit the parts.  Intertitle – The method of fixing down was by 5/8” steel bolts and a cross plate which were suspended from the loom feet and lowered into prepared holes in the concrete floor.  These were then grouted in with ‘Climont Fondu’ and granite chippings.  Each loom rests on a ¼” felt pad bonded to a 1” hardwood base and covered with sheet metal for protection.  The felt pad also tends to absorb some of the vibration. The felt pads are covered with Bostick adhesive and stuck onto the cross plates.  These are then bolted onto the underside of the loom and the whole thing is cemented to the floor. Intertitle – After fixing down was completed the motors were wired and fitted. The wires are run through pipes fitted underneath the floor, and the motors are attached to the looms. Intertitle – Shuttle running started at 136 picks on 5th October 1950. The machine is shown in action. Intertitle – and in slow motion The machine is shown running in slow motion. Intertitle – Mule spun yarns, for both warp and weft, are first wound onto cones. The cones are collected and put into wicker baskets.  They are then taken out of the baskets and put onto another machine, where the thread gets put onto larger cones.  These too are put into baskets. Intertitle – After coning, WARP yarns are reeled and warped on all electric stop-motion magazine reels. A woman worker places the cones onto a large frame where the threads pass through a series of clips and they get wound onto a large wheel. Intertitle – A warp beam is made ready for the loom. It then gets wound onto a large reel, a beam, and the ends are tied, before it gets attached to the loom. Intertitle – WEFT yarns, after coning, are automatically wound onto pirns for the loom batteries. Cones are taken out of baskets and attached to another machine.  Here the thread gets wound onto the pirns.  A woman worker then takes the pirns off. Intertitle – War and weft unite . . . The loom is shown weaving. Intertitle – and in slow motion The loom is shown weaving in slow motion. Title – The End