W. B. White and Sons




W. B. White and Sons of Red Scar Loom Works, Colne, Lancs
1849 Company established.
1899 Incorporated as a private limited company.
1914 Textile machinists. Specialities: power looms, plain cir box and drop box dobbies, shedding motions, winding, splitting and dressing frames, cloth folding, cloth brushing and cloth pressing machines, springs, spindles, weft forks, shuttle tongues etc. Employees 200. [1]
1917 Advert. Makers of looms and preparing machinery for cotton, linen and worsted goods. [2]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Directory 1917 Worrall's Yorkshire Textile Advert p186-7