Butterworth & Dickinson
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Butterworth and Dickinson were textile machinery manufacturers in Burnley
Lancashire UK. It made looms. The Saunders Bank works was founded by Samuel Dickinson, and inherited in 1871, by his nephew William, from Tosside, Bolton-by-Bowland
who went into partnership with John Butterworth, of "Oak Bank". The partnership operated the Saunder Bank works which it extended, took on the Globe Iron Works SD 836325 , and around 1889, built completely new premises at Rosegrove. The firm also had branch interests in the manufacture of cotton by way of the Westgate Shed.
In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers
, Howard and Bullough
, Brooks & Doxey
, Asa Lees
, Dobson and Barlow
, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington
and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd
., but the individual units continued to trade under their own names until the 1970, when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd. In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell.
Burnley
Burnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....
Lancashire UK. It made looms. The Saunders Bank works was founded by Samuel Dickinson, and inherited in 1871, by his nephew William, from Tosside, Bolton-by-Bowland
Bolton-by-Bowland
Bolton-by-Bowland is a village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. Prior to 1974, the village was part of Bowland Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire....
who went into partnership with John Butterworth, of "Oak Bank". The partnership operated the Saunder Bank works which it extended, took on the Globe Iron Works SD 836325 , and around 1889, built completely new premises at Rosegrove. The firm also had branch interests in the manufacture of cotton by way of the Westgate Shed.
In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers
Platt Brothers
Platt Brothers & Co Ltd, was a British company based at Oldham, in North West England. They were textile machinery manufacturers, iron founders and colliery proprietors, and by the end of the 19th century, had become the largest textile machinery company in the world, employing over 12,000 workers...
, Howard and Bullough
Howard & Bullough
Howard & Bullough was a firm of textile machine manufacturers in Accrington, Lancashire. They were the world's major manufacturer of power looms in the 1860s.-History:...
, Brooks & Doxey
Brooks & Doxey
Brook & Doxey was a textile machinery manufacturer from West Gorton, Manchester in England. It was founded in 1859. It was incorporated in 1920. The company used the Union Iron Works, West Gorton. The company also had a factory in Stockport....
, Asa Lees
Asa Lees
Asa Lees was a firm of textile machine manufacturers in Oldham, Lancashire. Their headquarters was the Soho Iron Works, Greenacres. It was second only in size to Platt Brothers.-Early history:...
, Dobson and Barlow
Dobson & Barlow
Dobson and Barlow were textile machinery manufacturers from Bolton. The partnership was founded in 1851 between Benjamin Dobson and Edward Barlow, building on a production facilities extending back to 1790.-Later history:...
, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington
John Hetherington & Sons
John Hetherington & Sons was a textile machinery manufacturer from Ancoats, Manchester in England. It was founded in 1830. Thecompany gradually expanded and acquired a number of factory buildings in Ancoats. It established the Vulcan Works on Pollard Street in around 1856 and left these buildings...
and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd
Textile Machinery Makers Ltd
In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers, Howard and Bullough, Brooks and Doxey, Asa Lees, Dobson and Barlow, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd., but the individual units continued to trade under their own names until...
., but the individual units continued to trade under their own names until the 1970, when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd. In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell.