Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-04-07
AN EXTENSIVE PLANT.
The Howard & BuIIOugh
Machine Company.
THE ACCRlNGTON WORKS.
They Are a Series OF Structure OF
Great Magnifcance.

lnS lochllon OF lhe american Dfaucn OF
the Howard q Bullough Machine Com.
pany OF Accringtou, Eng, Is approa hing
a settlement and considerable interest is
manifested In the site upon which the
mammoth works will be built.
While the directors have the refusal OF
| sites In various places there rs good
| reason 20 believe that the chances are
| largely Ia favor OF Pawtucket.
Tue Howard Il Builough Company is
the leading firm in England In The ma
chinery trade and IL is the intention TO
establish a plant in this country that,
when running at full capacity, will give
| employment 10 at least 1900 hands.
! From .he organization OF the American
| directors Pawtucket has been looked
| upon as being most desirable location.
In the meantime the preparatory shop OF
the new company ia the cid skating rink
building has been completed aud some
| fifty men are now at work there making
tools, patterns, etc, for the new estab-
lishment when II shall nave been built.
In the issue OF the Acctington, Eng,
Gazette of March TO- received by William
Davenport OF this city, is an excellent de-
scription and picture OF the Howard a
| Bullough plant IN that city.
TO Pawtucket IN regard 10 diversity of
manufactures. Besides cotton spinning
and manuiactu, ing II has also considera-
BILE calico printing and dye works, ma
chine shops and chemical manufacturers.
The plantof ne Howard Il Bullough Com
pany are a series OF magnificent ST ructures
which form quite a town OF themselves n
that part of Accrington in which they are
| situated.
In the exhaustive article in the Ac-
crington Gazette the writer states that Il
would be prupostcrous o give any idea OF
the establishment IN q single article. lt
is the most gigantic and commodious
| plant Ia England. IL is fitted and fur
nished with everything necessary for in
struction in mat hematics. machine draw.
ing, theoretical aud applied machines,
steam, electricity and magnetism, heat ,
modern languages, and last but not losst,
cotton spinning and he means whereby
| to live. These nesr BILE trainir x schools
are not confined TO the large number of
| apprentices, but are open to anyone upon
the payment of nominal fee. The
school is under the science and art de-
partment OF the government
Iu the first part of the room are speci
mems OF the multifarious machines manu-
| factured by the firm which are run by
power, and serve not only as samples for
| inspection by customers, but also for the
practical inspection OF the pupils. rhe
machines are all up to date and all the
best modern improvements have been In
| troduced in their instruction.
The beautifully designed and constructed
| machinery which converts the raw ma
terisl into the manufactured article In
I mir nj m ~ fnf hat in
worth days journey to be permitted TO
see 1t In operation. There are the OPEN
ing machines for breaking up and
clearing the cotton, forming II into whft
| looks like Wadding.
Then comes the cariing machine which
combs out the iibres, lays them IN poral-
| lei order and completes the purticatlon
| OF the material and tic whole process
down to the rowing frame which makes
fine thread is decidedly interCs ing, Then
| there ls the ring spinning flames Tor twist
yarns which produce The threads hich
| go lengthWay in a piece 1T cloth warp.
The spindles OF these machines are great
travellers, for they royolve at the rate OF
$500 revolutions a minute. The thread
making machine IL still more delicate in
its arrangement. But the most astoun
| ding about the machines Is the deft and
| cunning arrangement by which the ma
| chimes are stopped by electricity on the
| breaking OF n single thread.
The Accriugton works were founded In
1853 by the late John Howard. Later on
| he was joined by John Bulough, who had
| doservedly the reputation OF being tho
most notable In the day and generation
| i'm which be lived. '2he son OF James
Bullough was the late John Bull
| loggh, who shared with him In n
large degree the inventive faculty which
| afterwards went TO make the business one
OF the most renowned OF fits class In the
world.
The works give employment TO 1900
people and the pay roll OF the concern
| amounts to about $4,000.