Ermen & Engels
Other Business Names:
- Ermen Brothers
- Ermen, Peter
- Engels, Frederick
- Victoria Mill
- Ermen & Roby
- English Sewing Cotton Co Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
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Textile production
Thread production, esp for sewing
Notes:
Traced origins to the German Ermen family who in early 1830s established Ermen Brothers with works at Salford. In c1838 Peter Ermen, b1802, and Friedrich Engels senior, 1796-1860, also a German, formed a separate business, Ermen & Engels, which operated Victoria Mill and in 1840 established another cotton mill at Cologne which was managed by Engels. In the 1850s the two Manchester businesses merged. Came to specialise in production of cotton thread for which the newly invented sewing machine created a substantial demand. Engels' son, Friedrich E, junior, 1820-95, worked intermittently in the Manchester business from 1840s and full time from 1850; in 1864 he became a partner and retired in 1869. Engels junior was to achieve wide recognition as a philosopher and friend and collaborator of Karl Marx to whom he passed information and expertise on business matters. In 1870s the firm became Ermen & Roby which was incorporated in 1896 and which merged into the English Sewing Cotton Co Ltd in 1897
Publications:
- Capitalist threads. Engels the businessman and Marx's Capital by Mata, T, & R van Horn
- Ermen & Engels by Smethurst, John B
- Firm of Ermen & Engels in Manchester by Henderson, W O
- 'Firm of Ermen & Engels' in W O Henderson, Marx and Engels and the English Workers and other Essays by Henderson, W O
- Friedrich Engels in Manchester by Henderson, W O, & W H Chaloner
- 'The Manchester years, 1850-1870' in W O Henderson, Life of Friedrich Engels. Volume 1 by Henderson, W O
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Ermen Brothers
- Ermen, Peter
- Engels, Frederick
- Victoria Mill
- Ermen & Roby
- English Sewing Cotton Co Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
- Textile production Thread production, esp for sewing
Notes:
Traced origins to the German Ermen family who in early 1830s established Ermen Brothers with works at Salford. In c1838 Peter Ermen, b1802, and Friedrich Engels senior, 1796-1860, also a German, formed a separate business, Ermen & Engels, which operated Victoria Mill and in 1840 established another cotton mill at Cologne which was managed by Engels. In the 1850s the two Manchester businesses merged. Came to specialise in production of cotton thread for which the newly invented sewing machine created a substantial demand. Engels' son, Friedrich E, junior, 1820-95, worked intermittently in the Manchester business from 1840s and full time from 1850; in 1864 he became a partner and retired in 1869. Engels junior was to achieve wide recognition as a philosopher and friend and collaborator of Karl Marx to whom he passed information and expertise on business matters. In 1870s the firm became Ermen & Roby which was incorporated in 1896 and which merged into the English Sewing Cotton Co Ltd in 1897Publications:
- Capitalist threads. Engels the businessman and Marx's Capital by Mata, T, & R van Horn
- Ermen & Engels by Smethurst, John B
- Firm of Ermen & Engels in Manchester by Henderson, W O
- 'Firm of Ermen & Engels' in W O Henderson, Marx and Engels and the English Workers and other Essays by Henderson, W O
- Friedrich Engels in Manchester by Henderson, W O, & W H Chaloner
- 'The Manchester years, 1850-1870' in W O Henderson, Life of Friedrich Engels. Volume 1 by Henderson, W O