Brook Motors (also known as Brook Crompton) St Thomas' Road manufacturer of electric motors - employed about 1000 when I started in 1985. I think they set up about 1907 and also had a site at Honley.
Holmeses was W.C.Holmes at Turnbridge
There was also the big Yorkshire Eclecticity Board site at Lindley
The Gas Board was a bigger concern in the 50's & 60's and had a small tank engine that used to take coal wagons from Newtown Goods through the streets to the site where the gas holder is.
How about one of the most advertised companies in Huddersfield?
Henry Brook & Co. Ltd.
If you look at many grate / manhole covers in the streets of Huddersfield, the majority used to have the above name on them. Brooks was a foundry on Colne Road and existed for over 150 years until it's demise in 2002. From 1947 it supplied structural steelwork from it's workshop off Leeds Road which Dual Seal Glass now occupy.
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