Butterworth & Dickinson

Butterworth and Dickinson were textile machinery manufacturers in Burnley Lancashire UK. It made looms. The Saunders Bank works was founded by Samuel Dickinson, and inherited in 1871, by his nephew William, from Tosside, Bolton-by-Bowland who went into partnership with John Butterworth, of "Oak Bank". The partnership operated the Saunder Bank works which it extended, took on the Globe Iron Works SD 836325 , and around 1889, built completely new premises at Rosegrove. The firm also had branch interests in the manufacture of cotton by way of the Westgate Shed.^[1]

In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers, Howard and Bullough, Brooks & Doxey, Asa Lees, Dobson and Barlow, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd., but the individual units continued to trade under their own names until the 1970, when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd.^[2] In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell. ^[3]

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