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==Economy and Business==
*[http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=6&id=5807&gallery=Bradshaw+family&offset=0 William Bradshaw] was appointed assistant weaving master at Muir Mills in 1931 and worked there until 1952
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170817053724/http://www.lal-imli.com:80/profile.html Profile of The British India Corporation] (now archived) which was registered as a Limited Company on 24 February 1920., to amalgamate a number of companies, most of which were located in Cawnpore:
**Cawnpore Woollen Mills Co. (established 1876). Still in existence as a Government of India Company, (along with New Egerton Woollen Mills Co. Ltd., Dhariwal, Punjab. (established 1882)).
**Cooper Allen & Co. Ltd. proprietors of the largest Army Boot and Equipment Factory in the world – Kanpur (established 1881)
** Cawnpore Cotton Mills Co. Ltd. (established 1882).
** Empire Engineering Co. Ltd., Civil, Mechanical, Motor and Constructional Engineers, Contractors and Builders – Kanpur (established 1894).
* The was a Government Harness & Saddlery Works in Cawnpore in existence in 1928. A marking on a bayonet leather scabbard "Ca1928" indicates the scabbard was from this Government works, manufactured in 1928. (Details<ref>DisasterDog [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/304371-my-first-1907-bayonet/?do=findComment&comment=3209302 My First 1907 Bayonet] ''Great War Forum'' 11 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.</ref>)
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