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John Kennedy (manufacturer)

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John Kennedy was a Scottish textile industrialist in Manchester.

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John Kennedy (manufacturer): Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Kennedy spent much of his later life pursuing his technical and mechanical interests. He was consulted about the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, for which he was a leading advocate.
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John Kennedy (manufacturer): Rainhill, 1829
He was consulted about the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, for which he was a leading advocate. He was also appointed a judge, together with the steam engineers John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge and Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth, at the Rainhill locomotive trials in 1829.
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