spinning machine

“It was a tinderbox,” Godfrey said, filled with steam-driven spinning machines that covered the floors with a combustible dust — in rooms lit by windows and candlelight, on machines lubricated by whale oil.

His father operated a spinning machine at a textile factory.

The spinning machines shut down, moved offshore, and Blackburn hit the skids in the 1970s, a poster child for destitute Britain.

It would need about 100 more of the spinning machines to further raise the purification level to 90 percent.

Equipment in the underground containers included ventilation, lighting and a spinning machine to dry the cannabis.