Henry Tetlow
Henry Tetlow of Varley Street, Miles Platting, Manchester were manufacturers of Reeds, Healds and Polished Reed Wire used in the cotton industry.
1892 'An industry very closely and influentially associated with the great textile trades of Manchester and the north of England is ably and energetically conducted at the above establishment by Mr. Henry Tetlow, who, during the last twenty-five years, has effected immense improvements in the manufacture of reeds and healds for cotton, woollen, linen, silk, and other fabrics. In this class of machinery, as it formerly existed, Mr. Tetlow detected many faults and flaws which he set himself to remedy; and so great has been his success that his business as a reed and heald maker has now become the largest and most important concern of its kind in the world. His self-acting loop and mail heald machine, and his self-acting reed machine (three hundred dent per minute) embody his most notable improvements, and these are in themselves sufficient to establish the fame of any house. They are now made in very large numbers for the home and export trade, and experience a constantly increasing demand, which is the natural and inevitable outcome of their conspicuous merit.
'Besides these valuable machines, however, Mr. Tetlow has identified his name with a number of other celebrated apparatus, among which must be mentioned his patent spacing motion for heald machine, heald brushing machines for varnishing or sizing, wire polishing and rolling machines, dent cutting machines, steam chests for heating pitch or varnish, polished wire or rims (or in coils or cut dents), reed ends, reed ribs, &c. All these productions bear signs of Mr. Tetlow’s improving hand, and his energy and progressive efforts have certainly placed the trade largely in his debt for some of the best appliances now at their disposal. Another highly important branch of Mr. Tetlow’s business consists in the doubling of all kinds of cotton yarn for making healds. This is done with the aid of his own improved machinery, and large quantities of yarn thus doubled is supplied to other heald makers in various parts of the country. Mr. Tetlow’s works in Varley Street are very extensive and are equipped and organised to perfection for all the purposes of the industry to which they are devoted. ....'[1]