There is a report in the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Thursday 17 March 1910 on Brush Making in Axminster and the firm of Messrs Bidwell, Bidwell & Co. at Castle Mills, who employed close to 300 hands. They made 72 different patterns of tooth brushes in 12 different qualities and four different stiffnesses, and some 200 patterns of hair brushes. The tooth brushes went through 70 different processes from start to finish, so the Batstones would be employed in these processes.
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