Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Ernest Scragg and Sons

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of Macclesfield.

1889 Company founded.

1919 Private company.

1956 Company made public.

1959 Acquired the premises, plant, etc of William Bodden and Son of Oldham, old established spindle makers, and the spindle department of William Ryder[1].

1961 One of the leading manufacturers in the United Kingdom of processing machinery for silk, rayon, nylon, terylene, glass fibre, synthetic and natural yarn.[2]

1982 Acquired by Rieter.


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Mar 04, 1959
  2. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE