Joseph Hibbert was a textile machinery manufacturer from
Darwen,
Lancashire in UK. The Iron, Brass and Copper Works was in Bridge Street.
History
Joseph Hibbert was a brass founder and maker of gauges and taps. These skills were used to produce heald sizing equipment, including the
Shirley box sizer under licence. Sizing was an essential part of the weaving process for cotton. The warp had to be stiffened before it passed through the heald, This was done by coating it with size. After weaving the size had to be removed.
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In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers, Howard and Bullough, Brooks and Doxey, 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
Samuel Lees founded a roller making works in the 1790 ...
, Dobson and Barlow, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington
John Hetherington is a presumed apocryphal English haberdasher, often credited as the inventor of the top hat, which is said to have caused a riot when he first wore it in public on 15 January 1797.
The story
The common form of the story, as rep ...
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.
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Companies based in Lancashire
Textile machinery manufacturers
Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
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