1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: Higgins and Sons
14. HIGGINS and SONS, King Street, Salford - Manufacturers and part Inventors.
Cotton machinery:— Patent roving frame of 72 spindles; double self-acting radial mule, 600 spindles.
Long-line flax machinery:— First drawing frame, four bosses; second, 4 heads, 4 bosses each; patent roving frame, 6 heads, 60 spindles; spinning frame, 144 spindles.