Combe Barbour & Combe Ltd

Sectors:

  • Mechanical engineering Engine & turbine production exc transport
  • Mechanical engineering Textile & wearing apparel making machinery production

Notes:

Traced origins to c1845 when established at Belfast by James Combe and William Dunville as James Combe & Co, to make railway equipment. Known generally as Falls Foundry. Soon specialised in making machinery for flax processing and between 1880-1914 made stationary steam engines for mills. James Barbour a partner in the 1860s when known as Combe Barbour. Latterly known as Combe Barbour & Combe Ltd. 1900 merged with Fairbairn, Naylor, Macpherson & Co Ltd and Samuel Lawson & Sons, both of Leeds, to form Fairbairn, Lawson, Combe, Barbour Ltd, manufacturers of machinery for preparing and spinning flax, hemp and jute. Later renamed Fairbairn Lawson Ltd

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