This features Matthew Boulton and James Watt who were most celebrated for bringing the steam engine into the textile manufacturing process.

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In the process it has transformed itself from a low-margin textile-manufacturing business into one that derived two-thirds of its revenues in 1997 from garments.

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The end of quotas on U.S. textile imports almost two years ago helped speed that process.

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