Calico Printers' Association Ltd
Other Business Names:
- English Cotton Sewing Co Ltd
- English Calico Ltd
- Tootal Ltd
- Broad Oak Works
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Accrington, Lancashire, Lancashire, North West, England
- Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
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Textile production
Textile finishing
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Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc
Textile yarn, cloth, etc, distribution
Notes:
Established 1899 to effect the merger of 46 printing and 13 merchanting businesses in England and Scotland controlling c85% of the industry. Reduced plant steadily to 11 units by 1939. Established important overseas manufacturing and merchanting interests especially in China, India, Egypt. 1906 established a research department and post 1945 benefited from important new products such as Terylene. 1968 merged with English Sewing Cotton Co Ltd to form English Calico Ltd which in 1973 was renamed Tootal Ltd
Publications:
- 'Calico printing industry' in P L Cook (ed), Effects of Mergers. Six studies by Cook, P Lesley
- Development of Terylene by Winfield, J R
- Fifty Years of Calico Printing. A jubilee history of the CPA by Unknown
- History of the Calico Printing Industry of Great Britain by Turnbull, Geoffrey, & John G Turnbull (ed)
- Organised Capital. Employers' associations and industrial relations in northern England, 1880-1939 by McIvor, Arthur J
- Political Economy of Strategic and Structural Change in the Calico Printers' Association, 1899-1973 by Pitt, Simon
- 'Strategy and structure of cotton and steel enterprise in Britain, 1900-1939' in K Nakagawa (ed), Proceedings of the Fuji Conference, 1, 1974. Strategy and structure of big business by Yonekawa, Shin-ichi
- Studies in Innovation in the Steel and Chemical Industries by Allen, James A
- Visit by Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary to the Broad Oak Works of the Calico Printers' Association at Accrington, July 9th 1913 by Unknown
- ''Working the business as one'. Cultural and organisational aspects of the Calico Printers' Association merger of 1899' in J Wilson (ed), King Cotton. A tribute to Douglas A Farnie by Jeremy, David J
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- English Cotton Sewing Co Ltd
- English Calico Ltd
- Tootal Ltd
- Broad Oak Works
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Accrington, Lancashire, Lancashire, North West, England
- Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
- Textile production Textile finishing
- Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Textile yarn, cloth, etc, distribution
Notes:
Established 1899 to effect the merger of 46 printing and 13 merchanting businesses in England and Scotland controlling c85% of the industry. Reduced plant steadily to 11 units by 1939. Established important overseas manufacturing and merchanting interests especially in China, India, Egypt. 1906 established a research department and post 1945 benefited from important new products such as Terylene. 1968 merged with English Sewing Cotton Co Ltd to form English Calico Ltd which in 1973 was renamed Tootal LtdPublications:
- 'Calico printing industry' in P L Cook (ed), Effects of Mergers. Six studies by Cook, P Lesley
- Development of Terylene by Winfield, J R
- Fifty Years of Calico Printing. A jubilee history of the CPA by Unknown
- History of the Calico Printing Industry of Great Britain by Turnbull, Geoffrey, & John G Turnbull (ed)
- Organised Capital. Employers' associations and industrial relations in northern England, 1880-1939 by McIvor, Arthur J
- Political Economy of Strategic and Structural Change in the Calico Printers' Association, 1899-1973 by Pitt, Simon
- 'Strategy and structure of cotton and steel enterprise in Britain, 1900-1939' in K Nakagawa (ed), Proceedings of the Fuji Conference, 1, 1974. Strategy and structure of big business by Yonekawa, Shin-ichi
- Studies in Innovation in the Steel and Chemical Industries by Allen, James A
- Visit by Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary to the Broad Oak Works of the Calico Printers' Association at Accrington, July 9th 1913 by Unknown
- ''Working the business as one'. Cultural and organisational aspects of the Calico Printers' Association merger of 1899' in J Wilson (ed), King Cotton. A tribute to Douglas A Farnie by Jeremy, David J