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Broadbent, Thomas, & Sons Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Milford Engineering Co Ltd

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Huddersfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England

Sectors:

  • Mechanical engineering Engine & turbine production exc transport
  • Mechanical engineering Laundry machinery production
  • Transport equipment production Motor vehicle production
  • Mechanical engineering Textile & wearing apparel making machinery production

Notes:

Established 1864 by Thomas Broadbent, d1880, as engineers and millwrights serving textile industry making, inter alia, steam engines, etc. From 1870s increasingly focused on manufacture of centrifuges for wide range of industries, especially textile, chemicals and sugar. Briefly made motor cars (three only) and until 1930s cranes, furnace chargers and bridge operating gear. From 1930s also made dry cleaning machines. 1947 acquired Milford Engineering Co Ltd. Continues

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