Wardle Cotton Co
1920 Acquired by the Amalgamated Cotton Mills Trust.[1]
1924 "THE activities of the WARDLE COTTON CO. LTD. affords further demonstration of the ambiguity of the term "waste " when applied to products of the cotton boll, for in their mills at Rochdale much of the cotton waste produced by the various firms in the amalgamation is manufactured into yarns, dressings and cotton wool for useful service in various fields of activity.
The Wardle Cotton Co. Ltd. works in close conjunction with Redmayne and Isherwood Ltd.. The arm was acquired by the Amalgamated Cotton Mills Trust in 1920, since when it has been much enlarged and its scope developed.
In a comparatively short period the Rochdale works have gained an enviable reputation for the excellence of their condenser yarns and surgical dressings, particularly good progress having been made in the latter branch.
The company possesses one of the most complete and up-to-date plants in the country for dealing with cotton wool, they spin their own yarns for the manufacture of plain, boric and medicated lint, and the steadily increasing demand for their product affords convincing evidence of its recognised excellence. To the varieties of surgical dressings of proven merit made by the Wardle Cotton Co. Ltd. may be added gauze tissues, dental squares, sanitary towels, bandages, gauzes, butter muslins, etc.
The company's spinning mills are equipped with the most up-to-date machinery, and the 14,000 spindles owned by the company spin the highest class of condenser and preparation yarns varying from 4's to 10's in counts. The yarn is coned, cheesed or put up into bundles and delivered to various parts of the globe".[2]