B. Hick and Sons

Hick, Hargreaves & Co.
Company typeGeneral partnership
IndustryEngineering
Heavy industry
PredecessorB. Hick and Son
Founded10 April 1833
FounderBenjamin Hick
SuccessorHick, Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
HeadquartersSoho Iron Works,
Crook Street, ,
United Kingdom
Number of locations
2
Key people
John Hargreaves Jr
John Hick
George Henry Corliss
William Hick
William Hargreaves
William Inglis
Robert Lüthy
Benjamin Hick
John Henry Hargreaves
Wyndham D'arcy Madden
George Arrowsmith
Number of employees
  • 1000 (1894)
  • 600 (1961)
  • 350 (1990)

B. Hick and Sons, subsequently Hick, Hargreaves & Co, was a British engineering company based at the Soho Ironworks in Bolton, England. Benjamin Hick, a partner in Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell, later Rothwell, Hick & Co., set up the company in partnership with two of his sons, John (1815–1894) and Benjamin Jr (1818–1845) in 1833.