1955-1980

The next 30 years saw huge growth and Hainsworth purchased a number of companies, introducing a wide range of new products, including:

• car headlining cloth for the likes of Jaguar, Austin and Bentley
• horse clothing and undersaddles, the manufacture of the famous Newmarket horse blankets
• snooker cloth which became a main stay of the firm, being originally sold under the trade name Toptable
• specialised industrial cloth such as biscuit cloth, a woollen baize used for conveying biscuits
• piano baize for companies like Steinway and Renner
• the world’s most luxurious blanket brand, John Atkinson
• narrow fabrics including curing tapes (for wrapping around hose pipes), horse webbing and name tapes.

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