The Bentley Group of Engineering Companies, advert, c1955 : Wildt and Blackburn circular body knitting machines
The 1955 City of Leicester official guide has three pages of adverts isssued by the Bentley Engineering Co Ltd., a major group of manufacturers involved in the production of specialist knitting machines, frames and accessories for the hosiery and garment industries. Leicester was at the centre of such trade, the East Midlands and cities such as Leicester and Nottingham, along with several other towns in both counties, being home to numerous specialist textile companies making such special items as socks, stockings and garments such as pullovers taht use highly ingenious knitting frames made by Bentley's and the various subsidiary companies.
Bentley's had started business in 1910 to make scientific instruments but diversified after WW1 into knitting frames and then quite rapidly acquiring similar concerns across the East Midlands and in Scotland. One name that stands out here, as leicester based company, is that of Wildt & Company Limited, of Adelaide Works on Aylestone Road in Leicester. Bentley's themselves had quite an inter-war 'Art Deco' style works in the city that has survived the collapse of the group, and closures, that occurred in c1988. One of the trademarks used for their machines was "Komet" as can be seen in several places on these adverts.
The adverts themselves are very detailed and very colour-rich, quite the statement.
The Bentley Group of Engineering Companies, advert, c1955 : Wildt and Blackburn circular body knitting machines
The 1955 City of Leicester official guide has three pages of adverts isssued by the Bentley Engineering Co Ltd., a major group of manufacturers involved in the production of specialist knitting machines, frames and accessories for the hosiery and garment industries. Leicester was at the centre of such trade, the East Midlands and cities such as Leicester and Nottingham, along with several other towns in both counties, being home to numerous specialist textile companies making such special items as socks, stockings and garments such as pullovers taht use highly ingenious knitting frames made by Bentley's and the various subsidiary companies.
Bentley's had started business in 1910 to make scientific instruments but diversified after WW1 into knitting frames and then quite rapidly acquiring similar concerns across the East Midlands and in Scotland. One name that stands out here, as leicester based company, is that of Wildt & Company Limited, of Adelaide Works on Aylestone Road in Leicester. Bentley's themselves had quite an inter-war 'Art Deco' style works in the city that has survived the collapse of the group, and closures, that occurred in c1988. One of the trademarks used for their machines was "Komet" as can be seen in several places on these adverts.
The adverts themselves are very detailed and very colour-rich, quite the statement.