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Platt Brothers & Co Ltd
Industrymachinery industry and plant construction Edit this on Wikidata
Founded1770
Defunct1982
HeadquartersWerneth, Oldham, England
Key people
Henry Platt
ProductsTextile-processing machinery
Number of employees
15,000

Platt Brothers, also known as Platt Bros & Co Ltd, was a British company based at Werneth in Oldham, North West England. The company manufactured textile machinery and were iron founders and colliery proprietors. By the end of the 19th century, the company had become the largest textile machinery manufacturer in the world, employing more than 12,000 workers.[1]

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