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Excerpt from A Completed Century, 1826-1926: The Story of Heywood-Wakefield Company
Le task of adequately portraying a corporation, manufacturing many and varied lines of merclzandise in seven factories, and distrioutzng t/zat product tlzrouglz eleven warelzouses, is a diffi cult one; made more dgficult by tlze limitations of space and tlze necessary consideration of tfie varied view-points of t/zose wlzo, it is lzoped, ' will/ind interest in time pages. Consequently, t/zis oooé is not a bistory in tfie general acceptance of tlze term, nor does it contain in any adequate measure tlze biograp/zies of the men w/zo nave made tbc fiistory of tile Corporation; and not at all does it purport to ac an appraisal of tbe services of t/zose wiza to-day carry on tile work: that estimate may oe made more fit.
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