A Saltaire firm has said that a council tourist plaque blunder could force it to reconsider investing in other projects.

A row erupted after the signs, designed to give information on the historic model town and its founder Sir Titus Salt, were found to be littered with errors - including wrong directions to shops, an incorrect coat of arms for the Salt family, and a wrong date of September 26 for the birth of Sir Titus, who was actually born on September 20, 1803.

Bradford Council is now removing the signs while amendments are considered.

And now one of the companies which sponsored the signs, Saltaire-based hi-tech firm Filtronic, has announced that it will have to reconsider sponsoring other projects if errors cannot be avoided.

A spokesman for Filtronic Comtek said: "We obviously want the signs to be correct and we will seriously have to consider investing in anything else to do with Saltaire if the council are going to get it wrong. We would have to think about not doing it again."

Clive Woods, chairman of Saltaire Village Society, said the errors were pointed out to Bradford Council a year ago when plans for the plaques were unveiled.

But Councillor Phil Thornton, who thanked people for pointing out wording that he said could be "misleading", added: "Officers admitted to me that Sir Titus Salt's date of birth has been proved to be wrong but this was only found out after the plaques had been made."

Leisure committee chairman Councillor Barry Thorne said: "I'm carrying out an investigation into the matter at the moment."

He said he would be releasing an explanation of why the mistakes were not corrected after they were first pointed out as soon as the investigation had been completed.

A team of United Nations Inspectors is due to visit the village next year to decide whether Saltaire should be awarded World Heritage status.

British Waterways manager David Blackburn said he was happy with the canal-side sign that his organisation had sponsored.

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