Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and
manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 171,279 pages of
information and 248,160 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.
1848. 1876. 1882. 1895. 1899. August 1899. February 1901. January 1902. February 1911. Textile roller fluting machine displayed at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry (MoSI). This cut the grooves (flutes) in the rollers used in cotton spinning machinesDetails of fluting machine. A batch of rollers was set up in the machine, and these were reciprocated to be machined by a cutting tool. The array of cutting tools is on the left. The ratchet wheels rotated the rollers ready for the next cut 1928. 1938. Apprentices renovating machine.
Ryders of Bolton, later William Ryder of Bee Hive Works, Bolton.