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Cardiff City Police Gannex Overcoat worn in the last few years before amalgamation in 1969.
Manufactured by one of Huddersfield's biggest firms, Kagan Textiles, the Gannex coat bonded a nylon waterproof outer coating to a woollen lining. A Gannex overcoat was worn by the Duke of Edinburgh and Huddersfield-born Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and issued to police officers across the country. The company was founded in the 1950s by Joseph Kagan, a Lithuanian refugee and former concentration camp inmate, who began the business with just £8.
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