John A Wood Ltd

John A Wood Ltd was a textile manufacturer with registered offices at 82 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, and a factory at Mount Street Mills in the Harpurhey district of Manchester. The company used Jacquard looms to manufacture lace and an upholstery fabric called Moquette, used to cover seats on railway coaches, buses and trams.

The company is known to have been in existence at the Great Bridgewater Street adress in 1868. By 1936, it was one of only three textile manufacturers making Moquette in the city, based at Mount Street Mills.

The founder of the company, John A Wood, was born in Leeds around 1826, and appears on the 1861 Census as a coach lace manufacturer, living on Upper Brook Street, in the Chorlton upon Medlock area of Manchester. Reference to John A Wood, coach lace manufacturer of 30 Spring Gardens, Manchester, is made in the 1863 Slater's Trade Directory for Manchester and Salford.