No trade clings more firmly to old/orld ways than the leather industry, ‘he process of currying (stuffing and oftening leather after it is tanned* is till carried out in parts of England List as it was in the days when a taner’s daughter, wooed by a Norman Dver. gave birth to William the Conueror. Tallow and cod oil are rubbed ito the leather by the pressure of the •orker’s whole forearm, from wrist to lobw. Hence the phrase, “elbow
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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79Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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