Thread: Cotton Waste
View Single Post
  #11  Post / In Thread 
Old 31st July 2020, 12:07 PM
C.M.FANCE's Avatar
C.M.FANCE C.M.FANCE is offline
Engineer
 
Full Name: Clive M. Fance
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Norfolk Broads.
Posts: 1,198
Default

Younger members would think that Scrim, Mungo and Shoddy were a firm of dodgy solicitors, and wouldn't remember the 'Rag and Bone' man. I thought shoddy came from cotton and mungo from wool waste. It was cotton shoddy that was used in some engine sheds.
Reply With Quote