Fine Spinners and Doublers
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| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | Courtaulds |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Defunct | 1963 |
| Headquarters | Manchester, UK |
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| Cloth | Yarn (Cheese)- - Bundle | Sewing Thread |
Fine Spinners and Doublers was a major cotton spinning business based in Manchester, England. At its peak it was a constituent of the FT 30 index of leading companies on the .
Fine Spinners and Doublers, formed from a group of spinning companies specialising in fine Sea Island Cottons, was registered on 31 March 1898. The Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers Association Limited had the objective of promoting the interests of cotton spinners in North West England. It was founded through the efforts of Herbert Dixon and Scott Lings in 1897. Businesses that joined in this enterprise at the time included A&G Murray Ltd, Houldsworths, CE Bennett & Co, James & Wainwright Bellhouse and McConnell & Co; but many more followed in subsequent years.
The new association was vast compared with its competitors and its large size enabled it to secure its supplies of cotton from the Sea Island and Egypt. For thirty years it was the world's largest cotton-spinning concern, expanding to operate 60 mills and employ 30,000 operatives.
In 1915, its vice-president, McConnel was on the RMS Lusitania when she was sunk by enemy action. He survived and wrote an account of the sinking which was published in the Manchester Guardian.
In 1938 Lancashire Cotton Corporation replaced Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers in the FT 30 index as the latter completed a capital reduction and reorganisation programme.
In 1939 the population of Europe was plunged into war. There was a demand for increase supplies of fine cotton to fulfil new usages. These include cotton for electrical insulation in aircraft. Rubberised cotton dinghies including Lindholm apparatus, desalting apparatus and floating rope. 20,000 workers from the Fine Cotton Spinners took part as well as spending any free-time in the Home Guard.
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