Dobson & Barlow
Dobson and Barlow were manufacturers of textile machinery with works in Bolton, Greater Manchester.Isaac Dobson (1767–1833) founded the company in 1790 and by 1850 Dobson in partnership with Peter Rothwell had premises in Blackhorse Street which produced mules for cotton spinning.The company moved to a larger factory in Kay Street which had 1,600 workers in 1860.[2] During World War I the company withdrew from textile machinery manufacture and became one of the largest manufacturers of munitions in the area, making hand grenades, artillery shells, field kitchens, mobile workshops, naval mines and search lights.[1] 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 1970, when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd.[3] In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell.
Peter RothwellHydraulic pressesBoltonGreater ManchesterBenjamin Alfred DobsonWorld War ImunitionsPlatt BrothersHoward and BulloughBrooks and DoxeyAsa LeesJoseph HibbertJohn HetheringtonTweedales and SmalleyTextile Machinery Makers LtdBenjamin HickLancashirecottonDavid BellhouseBradshaw Gass & HopeF.W. Dixon & SonEdward PottsStott and SonsSidney Stott (later Sir Philip)Daniel AdamsonBoulton & WattBrowett, Lindley & CoBuckley & TaylorCarels FrèresClayton, Goodfellow & CoFairbairnW & J Galloway & SonsB. Hick and Sons / Hick, Hargreaves & CoJohn Musgrave & SonsJ & W McNaughtPetrie of RochdaleWilliam Roberts & Co of NelsonGeorge SaxonScott & HodgsonUrmson & ThompsonYates & Thom / Yates of BlackburnWillans & RobinsonJ & E WoodWoolstenhulmes & RyeBrooks & DoxeyButterworth & DickinsonCurtis, Parr & WaltonJohn Hetherington & SonsJohn Pilling and SonsHoward & BulloughGeo. HattersleyMather & PlattParr, Curtis & MadelyBritish Northrop Loom CoTaylor, Lang & CoTextile Machinery MakersTweedales & SmalleyT. Wildman & SonsElkanah ArmitageHenry AshworthHugh BirleyHugh Hornby BirleyJoseph BrothertonJames BurtonPeter DrinkwaterNathaniel EckersleyJohn FieldenWilliam GrayHannah GregSamuel GregRichard HowarthWilliam HouldsworthJohn KennedyGeorge Augustus LeeCharles MacintoshHugh MasonSamuel OldknowRobert PeelJohn RylandsThomas Whitehead and BrothersOldham LimitedsFine Spinners and DoublersLancashire Cotton CorporationBagley & WrightCombined Egyptian MillsCourtauldsJames Burton & SonsTextile manufacturingCotton-spinning machineryDREF friction spinningMagnetic ring spinningOpen-end spinningRing spinningSpinning frameSpinning jennySpinning muleCardingSteamingWater frameRoberts LoomLancashire LoomNorthrop LoomAir-jet loomRapier loomDandy loomLancashire boilerAmalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine)Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton SpinnersAmalgamated Textile Warehousemen's AssociationAmalgamated Textile Workers' UnionAmalgamated Weavers' AssociationCardroom AmalgamationGeneral Union of Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers' AssociationGeneral Union of Loom OverlookersLancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly SocietyNorth East Lancashire Amalgamated Weavers' AssociationNorthern Counties Textile Trades FederationThe Textile InstituteUnited Textile Factory Workers' AssociationMore loomsKissing the shuttleMule spinners' cancerPiece-rate listLCC millsCheshireDerbyshire