Editing Huddersfield (section)

=== Industry ===
Huddersfield is a manufacturing town, despite the university being the largest employer. Historically the town produced woollen textiles. This area of business, along with the chemical and engineering industries that emerged to support the manufacture of textiles, was the basis of the town's nineteenth and early twentieth century prosperity. The number of people who work in textiles has declined greatly, but the surviving companies produce large quantities of [[Woolen|woollen]] products with little labour. The town is home to textile, chemical and engineering companies, including Brook Motors Ltd founded by Ernest Brook in 1904. Against conventional wisdom, he started making [[alternating current]] electric motors, and he did this in one room with two assistants and starting capital of just £300. On its 50th anniversary in 1954 it employed more than 2,000 people and, with Ernest's sons Frank and Jack in charge, was the largest exclusive producer of AC motors in the world, and had a turnover of £4,500,000. That same year Brook Motors Ltd operated 10 factories in Huddersfield, its biggest being Empress Works on St Thomas's Road, and opened one at Barugh Green, Barnsley.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

Other local manufacturers are [[Cummins|Cummins Turbo Technologies]], founded in 1952 as Holset by Messrs. Holmes and Croset.<ref>{{cite news|title=History of Holset turbochargers|url=http://www.myholsetturbo.com/holsethistory.html}}</ref> (turbochargers), David Brown Gear systems (industrial gearing), Huddersfield Fine Worsteds (textiles), Taylor & Lodge (textiles), C & J Antich (textiles), Syngenta AG ([[Agrichemical|agro-chemicals]]), [[Pennine Radio Limited]] ([[electronics]] [[transformer]]s and sheet [[metalworking]]) and a large number of niche manufacturers, such as Dual Seal Glass (maker of spandrel glass panels<ref>{{cite news|last=Zientek|first=Henryk|date=4 November 2011|title=Dual Seal Glass named Business of the Year|newspaper=The Huddersfield Daily Examiner|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/business/dual-seal-glass-named-business-4963685|access-date=19 August 2014}}</ref>) and Ellis Furniture (producer of kitchen and bathroom furniture).<ref>{{cite news|date=30 August 2012|title=Ellis Furniture – the Huddersfield family business still going strong after 120 years – Interiors|newspaper=Yorkshire Life|url=http://www.yorkshirelife.co.uk/homes-gardens/interiors/ellis_furniture_the_huddersfield_family_business_still_going_strong_after_120_years_1_1571449|access-date=19 August 2014}}</ref> Huddersfield is home to Andrew Jones Pies, a regional award-winning pie-maker, and [[Mamas and Papas]], a manufacturer and retailer of prams, pushchairs and related items and specialist pneumatics supplier Shelley Automation Ltd.