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Taylor, Lang & Co. was a textile machinery manufacturer based in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England. The company was founded in 1852 as a tradesmen's co-operative with twenty-three members. It was originally known locally as 'The Amalgamated Shop'. The name 'Taylor Lang' may have originated in 1859.〔Samuel Hill, ''Bygone Stalybridge'', (1907), pp. 296–299.〕 Taylor, Lang & Co. was based at the Castle Iron Works on Grosvenor Street, Stalybridge. The founders worked long hours〔"A short period after the firm had commenced work the owner of the premises, seeing a light burning, visited the works and found one of the masters hard at labour, and at an hour, too, long after every engine had been stopped and every workshop in the town was closed." Cited in Samuel Hill, Bygone Stalybridge (1907).〕 at a reduced wage〔Fifteen shillings a week, less than half their previous wage of thirty to fifty shillings, and less than the ten to twenty shillings they might have expected as their 'lock-out' pay.〕 until the business was well-established and later became known all over the world as Taylor Lang's. The company designed and manufactured cotton spinning machinery, distributing to a global market. In the 1920s it acquired Lord Bros. of Todmorden. In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers, Howard and Bullough, Brooks and Doxey, Asa Lees, Dobson and Barlow, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd. Taylor, Lang & Co. was the largest company outside this group, but was acquired in 1936. The individual units continued to trade under their own names until 1970, when they were rationalised into one company, Platt UK Ltd.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Platt maker of quality textile machinery and parts )〕 In 1991, this company became Platt Saco Lowell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Howard and Bullough, Cotton Machinery Manufacturers )〕 ==Origins and Early History== Taylor, Lang & Co. was established in April/May 1852, with a capital of £600. The founders were mechanics in Oldham, but worked in their spare time in a co-op grocery shop where they talked over the idea of applying the cooperative approach to engineering. In January 1852 an industrial dispute (known as "The Great Lock Out") in the Manchester and Oldham district engineering industry led to them being thrown out of permanent employment ("locked out"). Consequently, twenty-three of these workmen came together and set up as cooperative machine makers (machinists). The original members were: :Books (Pattern Maker): James Taylor :Iron Turners: John Storrs, Samuel Booth, Henry England, William C. Birch, Thomas Cheetham :Fitters: Andrew Birchall, William Lees, Thomas Rhodes, Martin Scragg, Charles Rothwell, John Lang, James Byrom, Joseph Walter Watts, James Uttley, Joseph Rushton :Joiners: James Whitehead, James Sutcliffe, Thomas Watson, Jacob Marshall :Moulders: Thomas Armitage, Samuel Mitchell :Grinder: Joseph Woolhouse A reorganisation of the firm took place in 1859, in which seven of the original members withdrew their interests. These members were James Sutcliffe, Thomas Watson, Martin Scragg, James Uttley, Thomas Cheetham, Charles Rothwell and Jacob Marshall. Another original member, Samuel Mitchell, had died prior to 1859. As of 14 May 1872, Taylor, Lang & Co. became incorporated under the Companies Act of 1862. A Memorandum of Association was completed and signed on 25 April 1872, securing limited liability for the company's members.〔Memorandum of Association, under the Companies Act of 1862, "The objects for which the Company is established are: The purchase of the Machinery, Stock, Tools, Implements, Book Debts and Goodwill of the Machine Shops known as the 'Castle Iron Works' belonging to the firm of Taylor, Lang & Co., situated in Stalybridge in the County of Chester; the acquisition of purchases, leasing or otherwise, of the buildings, offices, storerooms, furnaces, iron foundry, with the steam engines, boilers, gearing, shafting and fixtures therein, hereditaments and premises connected therewith; the acquisition by purchases, leasing, or otherwise, of land and buildings, and the erection on the said land of such buildings and premises as may be necessary for the carrying () of the business of Machinists; the purchase of engines, boilers, shafting and machinery for the carrying out of said business; the buying, selling, and importing, and otherwise dealing in iron, steel, timbers and other materials and things; and the doing of all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects." Signed 25 April 1872.〕 The capital of the company was declared as £50,000, divided into 5000 shares of £10 each. 700 shares were taken up immediately, by John Lang, 'Brick of Cocker Hill', James Whitehead, Thomas Rhodes, Henry England, Joseph Watts and John Storrs. Notice of the Situation of the Registered Office of Taylor, Lang & Co. Limited was provided as "The Castle Ironworks in Back Grosvenor Street in Stalybridge in the County of Cheshire."〔Signed by Allen Harrison, secretary, on 21 May 1872.〕 The final Charter Agreement was signed on 24 June 1872. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taylor, Lang & Co」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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