British Northrop Loom Co Ltd was an engineering firm based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The company manufactured machinery for producing textiles, particularly the Northrop Loom.[1]
The firm was founded in 1902. It expanded rapidly around the time of the First World War, and by the 1950s it exported over 10,000 machines annually worldwide.[2]
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- ^ "Small-Scale Weaving: CHAPTER III. WEAVING TECHNOLOGIES: V. Automatic power looms". Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ "BBC - A History of the World - Object : Northrop 'Model T' Automatic Loom".