John Hetherington & Sons was a textile machinery manufacturer from Ancoats, Manchester in England, founded in 1830
 John Hetherington & Sons, 1896 | |
| Company type | Textile machinery |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1830 |
| Headquarters | Vulcan Works, Pollard Street, Ancoats, Manchester , UK |
| Products | Preparation and Spinning machines for Cotton and Worsted |
History edit
John Hetherington & Sons 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.
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 edit
- ^ "Platt maker of quality textile machinery and parts". Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2009.
- ^ "Howard and Bullough, Cotton Machinery Manufacturers". Retrieved 26 January 2009.
Literature edit
- Richard Marsden: Cotton spinning: its development, principles, and practice. Publisher: George Bell and sons, London 1884
External links edit
- Timeline John Hetherington and Sons in: Grace's Guide
- 1921 John Hetherington & Sons Catalogue with description of machines
- Details for lap machines; John Hetherington & Sons, Pollard Street, Ancoats, Manchester (England) 1890
- Details for Heilmann combers
- Works by or about John Hetherington & Sons at Internet Archive
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