Claim: The UK organization Wool Industries Research Association was established in 1989 and is where Archer J.P. Archer and Richard L.M. Synge worked at when they published a paper in the Biochemical Journal.
Evidence: It later became the Wira Technology Group before being merged with the Shirley Institute in the 1989 to form the British Textile Technology Group. It was funded by a levy raised under powers from the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 through the Wool Textile Research Council, established in 1950.