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Gannex is a waterproof fabric composed of an outer layer of nylon and an inner layer of wool with air between them. The trapped air is contained in pockets formed by fusing the two layers at intervals
Harold Wilson's raincoat displayed in Scilly Isles museum 2014
Gannex Mills at Elland, West Yorkshire
Harold Wilson
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James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Oppo
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…defunct. The mill occupied by the company was demolished in 2010. The raincoats were worn by a number of well-known people, such as the Prime Minister Harold Wilson. John A. Hargreaves, "Kagan, Joseph, Baron Kagan (1915–1995)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 Dec…
Wilson in 1975
Garter banner of Harold Wilson in the chapel at Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied PPE
Wilson in 1962
Wilson with US President John F. Kennedy in April 1963