HOWARD AND BULLOUGH AMERICAN MACHINE CO., LIMITED.

COTTON MACHINERY  MANUFACTURERS,  

PAWTUCKET,  RHODE ISLAND, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Written from first-hand research by George W. Randall, co-founder in July 1996 and former Vice Chairman of Kinloch Castle Friends’ Association.

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BACKGROUND TO AUTHOR

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THE NORTH AMERICAN CONNECTION

C. E. Riley & Co., Sole Importing Agents for Howard & Bullough cotton processing machinery, were located in Boston, Massachusetts.

   

Self-feeding opener and single beater breaker lapper.

                                                                                                   Single beater finisher lapper.

 HOWARD & BULLOUGH AMERICAN MACHINE FACTORY.

The Massachusetts / Rhode Island border divides Attleborough, 

where the factory was actually built, 

from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, which is often referred to as the actual location. 

Attleborough is eight miles north-east of Pawtucket.

                                          Demolition commences 2014.       Attleborough Sun Chronicle

Boston Globe Media Partners.

The intention is to use the cleared site as a Water Park.

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THE PARENT COMPANY IN ACCRINGTON, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND, 

WAS FOUNDED IN 1853 WITH FOUR EMPLOYEES.

Carrying out all aspects of production, from moulding shops to finished product.

At it U.K. site Howard & Bullough Ltd.,  eventually employed 6,000, 

its qualified fitters travelling the world installing and maintaining its machines. 

The American plant had over one thousand employees.

Below Certificate of Merit for William Henry Lowe:

The original Certificate is badly torn and water damaged.

The history of Howard & Bullough American Machine Company 

is very much part of the life of Sir George Bullough, son of John Bullough, 

who inherited a fifty per cent interest in the firm on the death of his father in 1891.

George Bullough, 1870-1939, as he was at the time, 

commissioned construction of Kinloch Castle on the 26,400 acre Scottish island of Rum, 

south of the Isle of Skye, as a hunting lodge.

In 1957 the island of Rum was purchased by the Conservative Government 

of he day and placed in the care of Nature Conservancy, later 

Scottish Natural Heritage, today, NatureScot.

No specific funding or appropriate care body was designated at the time,

 or sought since, 

for the care of Kinloch Castle still fully furnished and reflecting the 

late Victorian period in which it was built.

Today, neglected and closed, the castle with its fine contents still in-situ

is on the very verge of being lost forever.

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REVIEWED  3 MAY 2024

George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive.

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