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Peter Tait was a true entrepreneur. He became the inventor of a new type of working practice - the production line, a new way of sewing garments where each person did a particular job, thereby making each garment quicker and easier to manufacture. The monograph tells the full story of his company - Peter Tait & Co of Limerick, Ireland - from its beginnings to becoming the biggest supplier of ready-made uniforms to the Confederate Government du...

The story of Jewish entrepreneur Samuel Isaac and his founding of the commission house of S. Isaac, Campbell & Co in London in the 1850s. The story follows the firm through their inception to setting up one of the first shoe factories in England, to becoming the main supplier of military goods to the British army, through to being banned by army authorities for alleged corruption at the British army's Weedon Bec storehouse in Northamptonshire....