John Hetherington & Sons
| Company type | Textile machinery |
|---|---|
| Industry | Textile machinery |
| Founded | 1830 |
| Headquarters | Vulcan Works, Pollard Street, Ancoats, Manchester , UK |
| Products | Preparation and Spinning machines for Cotton and Worsted |
John Hetherington & Sons was a textile machinery manufacturer from Ancoats, Manchester in England. It was founded in 1830. The company 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 in 1939 when the Lancashire cotton industry was in decline. The company then moved to the Union Iron Works at West Gorton. The Vulcan Works was still used until 2004, when it was sold to a property developer for conversion into flats.
History
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.[1] In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell. [2]
References
- ^ "Platt maker of quality textile machinery and parts". Retrieved 2009-04-17.
- ^ "Howard and Bullough, Cotton Machinery Manufacturers". Retrieved 2009-01-26.
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