page_title: Earls Colne
section_title: R. Hunt and Company Limited – Atlas Works
hierarchical_section_title: Earls Colne / History / R. Hunt and Company Limited – Atlas Works
caption_attribution_description: Earls Colne (UK) Atlas Buildings, now refurbished into residential
context_page_description: Earls Colne is a village in Essex, England named after the River Colne, on which it stands, and the Earls of Oxford who held the manor of Earls Colne from before 1086 to 1703.
context_section_description: In 1824 Robert Hunt, a millwright from Soham in Cambridgeshire, settled in Earls Colne and set up a millwrighting and wheelwrighting shop and smithy at what was to become the Atlas Works.
  The business soon gained a local reputation for making general agricultural equipment and after exhibiting products at the Royal Agricultural Show in 1851 the company's products gained a country-wide recognition.
  After Robert Hunt's death the firm was carried on by his surviving son Reuben Hunt and grew to become the major employer in the village, by 1900 employing approximately half of the male working population of the village.
  When Sir R. H. Hunt, the founder's grandson, died in 1970 the firm was still the village's chief employer with some 300 employees and works covering 10 acres (4.0 ha). However the business subsequently declined and The Atlas Works were closed in 1988.
caption: The Atlas Works buildings have been refurbished into residential.
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