Clegg and Mellor roller covering collection

Made:
Wallsend

Collection of tools, machines and products made and used by the Oldham based roller covering business, Clegg and Mellor. Clegg and Mellor created coverings for a range of roller types, including those for combing machines, winding machines, draw frames and spinning machines. The material dates from around 1930-1989.

This collection of material comes from the roller covering workshop of the Oldham based company Clegg and Mellor.

Clegg and Mellor was founded in the 1860s and moved into the Werneth Lodge site in Oldham, in the early 1900s. The company was taken over by an apprentice of the company in the 1930s and the company continued to manufacture textile roller covers as well as draft aprons. In the later years of the company, there was an attempt to diversify into leather handbags and belts. The company closed in the 1980s. A large number of the tools and machines were made by Dronsfield Brothers, who were based at the Atlas Works in Oldham and manufactured a range of textile machinery.

Details

Category:
Textile Industry
Object Number:
Y1998.33
Measurements:
Overall: 52 mm x 75 mm x 215 mm,
type:
roller covering equipment

Parts

Ending machine, with cover guard and rollers on side

Ending machine, with cover guard and rollers on side

Ending machine, with cover guard and rollers on side. Dronsfield Brothers patent, Oldham

More

This machine fastened the ends of the leather tubes on the roller bosses through friction, it was used in the textile roller covering process.

Measurements:
overall: 470 mm x 900 mm x 500 mm,
Materials:
iron
Object Number:
Y1998.33.12
type:
ending machine

Angus (Gacots) concentricity tester

'Angus (Gacots)' concentricity tester, with gauge. In separate parts, contained in wooden case.

Manufactured by Mercer.

Materials:
iron and steel (metal)
Object Number:
Y1998.33.86
type:
concentricity tester
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Rollers

Rollers

Box of rollers and associated ephemera.

Measurements:
overall: 555 mm x 470 mm x 415 mm,
Object Number:
Y1998.33.87
type:
rollers
Rollers

Rollers

Box of rollers and associated ephemera.

Measurements:
overall: 310 mm x 465 mm x 380 mm,
Object Number:
Y1998.33.88
type:
rollers