Gannex

Harold Wilson's raincoat displayed in Scilly Isles museum 2014

Gannex is a waterproof fabric composed of an outer layer of nylon and an inner layer of wool with air between them. It was invented in 1951 by Joseph Kagan, a UK industrialist and the founder of Kagan Textiles Ltd., of Elland, which made raincoats. The company is now defunct. The mill occupied by the company was demolished in 2010.^[1] The raincoats were worn by a number of well known people.^[2]

Gannex Mills at Elland, West Yorkshire

References[]

^ "A landmark is vanishing". Halifax Courier, 22 December 2010.
^ Comfort, Nicholas (2012). Surrender How British industry gave up the ghost 1952-2012. New York: Biteback Publishing. ISBN 9781849543163.

John A. Hargreaves, "Kagan, Joseph, Baron Kagan (1915–1995)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 Dec 2006

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[1] "A landmark is vanishing". Halifax Courier, 22 December 2010.

[2] Comfort, Nicholas (2012). Surrender How British industry gave up the ghost 1952-2012. New York: Biteback Publishing. ISBN 9781849543163.

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