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Posted: March 08, 2022
Women were essential to the start-up of Double Two
In April 1940, the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer announced new work opportunities for “200 women at [the] new Wakefield Factory ''. Isaak Donner had recently arrived in Wakefield, having left Vienna as a Jewish refugee and was setting up his clothing factory business which specialised in shirtmaking and the patented double collar shirt. One of the provisions of starting the business was that it must provide employment for women. A