Taylor, Lang & Co
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Taylor, Lang & Co was a textile machinery manufacturer from Stalybridge
, Greater Manchester
in UK.
consumer co-operative and established with capital of £600. After seven years, in 1859 seven members James Uttley, James Suttcliffe, Thomas Watson, Martin Scragg, Thomas Cheetham, Charles Rothwell and Jacob Marshall withdrew. Samuel Mitchell by then had died. The last of the twenty-three to die was Martin Scragg in 1907. Perhaps the designation Taylor Lang originated in 1859.
The company made and supported the full range of preparation and spinning machinery. This included installing and maintaining textile machinery throughout the world. In the 1920s it acquired Lord Bros. of Todmorden.
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
. Taylor, Lang & Co was the largest company outside this group, but was acquired in 1936. The individual units continued to trade under their own names until the 1970, when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd. In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell.
Stalybridge
Stalybridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 22,568. Historically a part of Cheshire, it is east of Manchester city centre and northwest of Glossop. With the construction of a cotton mill in 1776, Stalybridge became one of...
, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
in UK.
History
The Company was founded in 1852 as a tradesmen's co-operative with twenty-three members James Taylor, John Storrs, Samuel Booth, Henry England, William C. Birch, Thomas Cheetham, Andrew Birchall, William Lees, Thomas Rhodes, Martin Scragg, Charles Rothwell, John Lang, James Byron, Joseph Walter Watts, James Uttley, Joseph Rushton, James Whitehead, James Suttcliffe, Thomas Watson, Jacob Marshall, Thomas Armitage, Samuel Mitchell, and Joseph Woolhouse. It was known originally as The Amalgamated Shop having its origins in an OldhamOldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of the city of Manchester...
consumer co-operative and established with capital of £600. After seven years, in 1859 seven members James Uttley, James Suttcliffe, Thomas Watson, Martin Scragg, Thomas Cheetham, Charles Rothwell and Jacob Marshall withdrew. Samuel Mitchell by then had died. The last of the twenty-three to die was Martin Scragg in 1907. Perhaps the designation Taylor Lang originated in 1859.
The company made and supported the full range of preparation and spinning machinery. This included installing and maintaining textile machinery throughout the world. In the 1920s it acquired Lord Bros. of Todmorden.
In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers
Platt Brothers
Platt Brothers & Co Ltd, was a British company based at Oldham, in North West England. They were textile machinery manufacturers, iron founders and colliery proprietors, and by the end of the 19th century, had become the largest textile machinery company in the world, employing over 12,000 workers...
, Howard and Bullough
Howard & Bullough
Howard & Bullough was a firm of textile machine manufacturers in Accrington, Lancashire. They were the world's major manufacturer of power looms in the 1860s.-History:...
, Brooks and Doxey
Brooks & Doxey
Brook & Doxey was a textile machinery manufacturer from West Gorton, Manchester in England. It was founded in 1859. It was incorporated in 1920. The company used the Union Iron Works, West Gorton. The company also had a factory in Stockport....
, Asa Lees
Asa Lees
Asa Lees was a firm of textile machine manufacturers in Oldham, Lancashire. Their headquarters was the Soho Iron Works, Greenacres. It was second only in size to Platt Brothers.-Early history:...
, Dobson and Barlow
Dobson & Barlow
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:...
, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington
John Hetherington & Sons
John Hetherington & Sons was a textile machinery manufacturer from Ancoats, Manchester in England. It was founded in 1830. Thecompany 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...
and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd
Textile Machinery Makers Ltd
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...
. Taylor, Lang & Co was the largest company outside this group, but was acquired in 1936. The individual units continued to trade under their own names until the 1970, when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd. In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell.