Mather and Platt:1935 Review
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Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to the Iron, Steel and Engineering Industries of Manchester and District
Mather and Platt Limited, Park Works, Newton Heath.
When the firm of Mather and Platt, the well-known textile, electrical, hydraulic and fire protection engineers was established early in the last century in Salford its activities were devoted almost entirely to the manufacture of machinery for the bleaching, dyeing, printing and finishing of textile materials. Many of the most valuable appliances in use to-day in these branches of the textile industry were originated or perfected there. Their standard range of textile machinery now includes preparatory and bleaching machinery; preparation, printing, steaming and ageing machines as well as dyeing and finishing machinery of all types.
In course of time part of the energies of the firm were devoted to other branches of engineering and in 1900 further expansion was inevitable. It was, therefore, considered expedient to secure a fifty acre plot of land at Newton Heath where Park Works are now situated. From time to time extensions have been made in accordance with a well ordered scheme of development and we now find seventeen 40 ft. bays, up to 600 ft. long, all on one floor level.
In 1920 a research laboratory was built and equipped which provides facilities for the thorough investigation of the many problems which arise in connection with the manufacture and development of the firm's products.
Textile engineering still forms one of the most important branches of the firm's activities for, in addition to the machines previously mentioned, Mather and Platt have developed an automatic warp stop motion and a weft feeler attachment for looms and the "Vortex" system of humidification which has been widely adopted throughout the textile industry where the maintenance of a definite standard of humidity is essential.
Electrical engineering, one of the interests of the firm since the early days of this industry, is now a most important branch of the business. Mather and Platt electrical manufactures include:— direct-current motors and dynamos, polyphase and single-phase generators, synchronous motors, rotary converters....[more]
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