Brooks & Doxey
Brooks & Doxey was a textile machinery manufacturer from West Gorton, Manchester in England.Ferranti bought the old Union Iron Works to make mainframe computers in 1956.The company made the full range of preparation and spinning machinery.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.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about a manufacturing company in the United Kingdom is a stub.
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