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The company made the full range of preparation and spinning machinery. In the 1920s it acquired Lord Bros. of
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bought the old Union Iron Works to make mainframe computers in 1956. It later became
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Spinning machines for Cotton and Worsted
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609:Hannah Greg
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552:Mill owners
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969:Lancashire
964:Derbyshire
913:More looms
816:Dandy loom
705:Courtaulds
644:Hugh Mason
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