Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
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Lupton and Place
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Lupton and Place of Queen Street Ironworks, Burnley
Dobby Makers. Exhibit at Queen Street Mill Museum. Dobbies were attached to weaving looms to allow simple patterns to be woven.
1892 Company established.
1922 Textile Engineers Queen Street Ironworks, Burnley. T. A.: "Climax Burnley." T. N.: Burnley 331. Private Company. Specialities.—Patentees and sole manufacturers of " Climax " dobbers, " Climax " spring top motions and improved undermotions.[1]
1943 "Specialists in one piece pilots' windscreens".[2]