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Indiana Jones' leather jacket maker still reaping rewards

05/02/2014

When the props procurers for Hollywood director Steven Spielberg asked Peter Botwright to make a coat, the leather jacket maker didn’t realise he would be still reaping the rewards more than 30 years later. UK-based Wested Leather makes between 1,000 and 1,500 replicas a year from its factory in Kent after Harrison Ford wore the original in the...

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