1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class 7.: Lawrence Wilson and Sons
1541. WILSON, LAWRENCE, and SONS, Cornholme Mills, Todmorden, near Manehester.
Bobbins, tubes, spools, skewers, bosses, clearers, etc.
COTTON PREPARATION
- 1. Slubbing soft bobbin.
- 1. Intermediate ditto.
- 1. Roving ditto.
- Ditto fine ditto.
PATENT LONG COLLAR PRESS.
- 2. Slubbing tube, hooped.
- 2. Intermediate ditto.
- 2. Roving ditto.
COMMON PRESS TUBES.
- 3. Slubbing, beaded ends.
- 3. Intermediate ditto.
- 3. Roving ditto.
- 4. Slubbing, plain ends.
- 4. Intermediate ditto.
- 4. Roving ditto.
SKEWERS FOR BOBBINS OR TUBES.
- 5. Slubbing, lancewood, or ash, and footed.
- 5. Intermediate ditto ditto.
- 5. Roving ditto ditto.
SKEWERS FOR PATENT COLLAR TUBES.
- 6. Slubbing, ash and footed with box.
- 6. Intermediate ditto ditto.
- 6. Roving ditto ditto.
WARPING AND SPINNING.
- 7. Warping bobbins.
- 7. Warping bobbins, feather edges.
- 7. Winding ditto.
- 8. Doubling ditto, for wet, solid
- 9. Throstle ditto, plain or painted
- 9. Ditto ditto, Wilson’s improved
- 9. Ditto ditto, metal bushed
- 10. Pin ditto, soft or hard wood
- Sally ditto, ditto, ditto,
- Weaver's ditto,
- 11. Casing ditto
- Bolling ditto,
MISCELLANEOUS.
- 12. Twiner's skewers, lancewood.
- Reeler's cop ditto ditto.
- Warping ditto ditto.
- 13. Spindle cop braids, box.
- 14. Throstle top clearers.
- Ditto under ditto.
- Mule top clearers.
- Ditto under ditto.
- 15. Picking sticks, turned.
- Ditto ditto, flat.
- 16. Carr's patent bobbin nails.
WOOLLEN PREPARATION.
Condenser bobbins.
- 1. Sliver ditto.
- 7. Twister ditto.
- 17. Warp ditto.
- 17. Weft. ditto.
WORSTED PREPARATION.
- 18. Drawing bobbins.
- 18. 1st finisher ditto.
- 18. 2d ditto ditto.
- 18. Roving ditto.
- 7. Warping ditto.
- 19. Spinning ditto.
- 20. Spool ditto.
- 21. Do. shell ditto.
FLAX AND SILK PREPARATION.
- 22. Large headed bobbins.
- Small ditto ditto.
- 23. Spinning bobbins, large.
- 24. Ditto ditto small.
- Box ditto ditto
- 25. Winding ditto
- 26. Bosses and pulleys.
- 14. Clearers, and all other kinds.
Prices will be cheerfully forwarded for any of the above, or other descriptions of bobbins, etc. (plain or painted and varnished), on receipt of full particulars of size.
Orders (for home or export) will be carefully and promptly attended to. Address, Cornholme Mills, Todmorden, near Manchester.
The following superior advantages and facilities possessed by L. W. and Sons for producing the best possible article at the lowest remunerative cost, enable them to make it especially advantageous to purchasers intrusting them with their orders.
1. Forty years' practical experience in the business as bobbin manufacturers.
2. Upwards of 300 hands employed, all trained by the firm, being the largest establishment of the kind in the United Kingdom.
3. Inventors and sole proprietors of patent machinery which produces superior workmanship, and guarantees the greatest uniformity in shape and size.
4. Immense stocks of prepared and well-seasoned timber always on hand, enabling them to execute orders to any extent at a very short notice.
The following eminent machinists have kindly permitted their names to appear as references:- Messrs. Platt Brothers and Co., Oldham; Parr, Curtis, and Co., Manchester; William Higgins and Sons, Manchester; Joseph Hetherington and Sons, Manchester; Walker and Hacking, Bury; John Mason, Rochdale; John Tatham, Rochdale; Wilson and Longbottom, Barnsley; Lord Brothers, Todmorden.