British Cotton and Wool Dyers Association
British Cotton and Wool Dyers' Association of 22 Cumberland Street, Manchester.
1900 The Association was formed as a limited public company for the purposes of acquiring 46 companies engaged in the trade, representing about 85 percent of the trade with 2 firms in the Bradford Dyers Association, with which an agreement had been established. The control of each branch would remain in the hands of those who had conducted it in the past, as far as possible[1]
1900 The company was registered on 12 February, to amalgamate numerous businesses of companies and firms engaged in dyeing, bleaching, printing and sizing cotton yarns. [2]
Acquired the following companies:[3]
- Joseph Balme
- Joseph Barlow and Sons
- Bradford Patent Dyeing Co
- David Brown and Co, Dunfermline.
- Brownlee and Fyfe
- John Buckle and Co
- Burton and Slingsby
- Peter Caldwell and Co
- Cochrane, Smith and Co
- William Cunningham and Co
- John T. Dawson
- William Eckersall and Co
- Fletcher Brothers
- Alfred Goodall and Co
- Oliver Greenwood
- Heppenstall Brothers
- W. and J. Hilton
- Holmes and Holdsworth
- Benjamin Ingham
- Jopson, Ashworth and Edmunds
- Kearns, Allen and Co
- Kerr and Hoegger
- Edward Lee
- Marland Dyeing Co
- Marshfield Dyeing Co
- D. Macfarlane and Sons
- J. and J. McCallum
- William McConnell and Co
- Richard Moir and Co
- Murgatroyd and Lister
- Henry North and Sons
- William North and Co
- Abram Peel Brothers
- Adam Robinson and Son
- Robinson Brothers
- Isaac Robson and Sons
- Rule and Leyden
- James Scoon
- John Siddall
- Joshua Siddall and Son
- Thomas Simpson and Co
- S. Smethurst and Sons
- Spencer and Exley
- Matthew Stuttard and Brothers
- John Turnbull and Sons
- W. Woodcock and Co
1976 Name changed to Cawdaw Industrial Holdings.[4]
1982 The company called in the receivers.[5]
The company’s original business base was the commission dyeing of customers’ yarns and materials. By the 1970s it traded in a wide variety of dyed yarns, both natural and man-made, and its subsidiaries were involved in timber merchanting, engineering, kitchen furniture manufacture, and manufacture and retailing associated with the tweed and knitwear trade of the Scottish Borders. By 1983 the company was in receivership.
Cawdaw Industrial Holdings Ltd., of Manchester (previously British Cotton and Wool Dyers Association Ltd.), dyers, bleachers, printers and sizers[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Manchester Archives