Dobson & Barlow Information
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
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 the 1970, when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd.[1] In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell. [2] The Globe works closed in 1993.
References
- ^ "Platt maker of quality textile machinery and parts". http://www.platt.co.uk/history2.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
- ^ "Howard and Bullough, Cotton Machinery Manufacturers". http://www.lily-elsie.com/howard.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
Bibliography
- Halton, Maurice J., The Impact of Conflict and Political Change on Northern Industrial Towns, 1890 to 1990, MA Dissertation, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Manchester Metropolitan University September 2001 MA Dissertation
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