Brewer's: Leeds

(a Stock Exchange term). Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Ordinary Stock. It is the Leeds line.

The Austrian Leeds.
Brunn, in Moravia, noted for its woollen cloth. So it was called in the palmy days of Austria.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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