British Northrop Loom Co. Ltd
The British Northrop Loom Co. Ltd. was established in Blackburn in 1902 to build textile looms designed by Drapers in Hopedale. New Northrop factories were built in Blackburn before and after World War I. By the 1950s British Northrop employed over 3,000 operatives, producing an average of 10,000 looms a year. These were exported across the globe and had a huge impact on developing third world economies. The worldwide success of the Northrop Automatic Loom contributed directly to the rapid post-war decline of Lancashire's own cotton industry.
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