 The company was known as Butts and Dicks and made looms that were exported around the world.In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers, Howard & Bullough, Brooks & Doxey, Asa Lees, Dobson & Barlow, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington & Sons and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd, but the individual units continued to trade under their own names until the 1970, when they were rationalised into one company, Platt UK Ltd.In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell.