Webster, Birch and Co
of Manchester and Salford
Maker of drying machines which were supplied to dye works in Blackburn[1] and elsewhere.
1825 Listed as Webster & Birch, machine makers, St. Mary's. James Webster, machine maker; house: 2 Dyer's Lane, Deansgate[2]
1832 To be let: a mill situate in Foundry Street, Salford, in the possession of Messrs Webster, Birch and Co., machine makers. The mill is four storeys high, 26 yards long and 11 yards wide, and is worked by a steam engine of 16 horses’ power. Apply to J. and T. Sherratt [3]
Presumably successors were Webster, Birch and Mather?