What on earth is a Calendar Worker? COMPLETED THANKS

[Antdamm]

I have a Michael Wynn on a marriage cert, his occupation is listed as a Calendar Worker.

What on earth is this??

Tried googling, but got nowhere


Thanks

[sem73]

Hi there

Maybe this?!.......

Calenderer / Calenderman - "Calender" operator. A machine used to press and finish fabrics or paper between rollers

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/c.html

Sarah

[usacheshire]

I can't be certain but when I worked in England many years ago the calendars were used in the rubber and plastics industry to prepare the compounds before spreading the material on fabrics.

[gortonboy]

Calender: A machine consisting of two or more cylinders revolving so nearly in contact with each other that cloth passed between them is smoothed and glazed by their pressure; an establishment in which woven fabrics are calendered, starched, stretched and otherwise finished for the market; one engaged in calendering; a calenderer - vt. To press or finish in a calender.

[usacheshire]

I have just read your name Gortonboy- The place I worked was Greengate & Irwell Rubber Co down in Salford.

[Orpheus]

During the 40s and early 50s my mother worked in a laundry where they used a calendar press.  I'm not sure whether it was used to iron dry garments or, like the old fashioned mangle, to squeeze water out of wet garments.

Orpheus

[Antdamm]

Does it make any difference if the Marriage cert where the occupation came from was in 1885 in Scotland?

[Huckleberry]

Modern Calendar Machine:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/206739797/three_roller_calendar_machine.html

[Antdamm]

Thanks very much everyone!!