Sir Titus Salt, Bart, Sons and Co
of Salt's Mill, Saltaire, near Bradford, Yorkshire.
1824 Business established by Titus Salt.
Originally three small mills in Bradford
1881 The extensive mills were erected in 1851 on the river Aire; they were intersected by the main line of the Midland Railway Co. and by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which connects Hull with Liverpool. Own private siding from the railway for coal.
1881 Incorporated as a Private Limited Company
1881 The company was registered on 23 July, to acquire the business of worsted spinners and manufacturers of the firm of the same name. [1]
1893 Attempt to wind the company up by its creditors. Dismissed. '...the position of the defendant Company was this - it was very large and a very prosperous company one time, carrying on very large business at Saltaire, Yorkshire, and also carrying on business in the United States. Owing, unfortunately, to the changes in fashions, the company’s business fell off, the company got into difficulties, and in the last Long Vacation there was an action brought by creditors, who presented petitions for the compulsory and also for the voluntary winding up of the Company....'[2]
1914 Staff: 3,200. Specialities: Alpaca and Mohair Dress Goods, Plain and Fancy Coatings and Suitings for Men's wear. Patentees of several Textile applications. Grand Medal of the Legion of Honour, Paris, 1856.
1958 Acquired by Illingworth Morris and Co.
1965 Salts (Ireland) was acquired by Sunbeam Wolsey which would enable rationalisation of the Irish worsted yarn industry[3]