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Catford could identify where people were from exclusively through their speech. His expertise – which included formal phonetics , the aerodynamic and physiological production of speech, phonetic peculiarities in speech, and an astounding ability to reproduce words, and even speeches, backwards – led him to be invited to the University of ...
Joseph Bamford was born into a recusant Catholic family in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, which owned Bamfords Ltd, an agricultural engineering business. [2]His great-grandfather Henry Bamford [3] was born in Yoxall and had built up his own ironmongers business, which by 1881 employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women.
In 1891 the company built a second English-based factory to meet southern demand, at Droylsden, Manchester, run by James' second son William. [2] [3] In 1900 a third factory was built in Catford in London, run by James' youngest son David (1870–1948). [4] In 1914 a fourth factory was created at Brislington near Bristol.
J.C. Bradford & Co. was founded in May 1927, with the $10,000 purchase of Joe B. Palmer Co., a small securities firm in Nashville. Prior to founding J.C. Bradford & Co., Bradford had worked in insurance, managing the Davis, Bradford & Company insurance agency until 1923 when he was brought in to save the Memphis-based grocery store Piggly Wiggly.
His teachers at Michigan included J. C. Catford and Kenneth Pike, and at Edinburgh David Abercrombie and John Laver. [1] After teaching at the University of Leeds, Esling began working at the University of Victoria in 1981. He chaired its Linguistic Department between 2008 and 2013. [1]
J. C. Backings Corporation is a scenic backdrop rental company based in Culver City, California.It was established in 1962 by John Harold Coakley and his son, John Gary Coakley, who realized there was a need for custom painted backings and backdrop rentals for American film and television companies.
Joseph Cyril Bamford (1916–2001), British businessman, founder of JCB heavy equipment company; Seamus Moore (singer) (born 1947), ... J. C. Bamford (disambiguation)
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