Nedre Vøiens Bomuldsspinderie

Nedre Vøiens Bomuldsspinderi

1887 map of Sagene, "Graahs Spinderi" near the bottom.

Nedre Vøiens Bomuldsspinderie was a textile manufacturing company in Oslo, Norway. It has also been called Vøiens Bomuldsspinderie or variants thereof, as well as Graahs Spinderi and Knud Graah & Co after the owner.

In 1844 Knud Graah bought the rights to a part of Akerselva near the farm Nedre Vøien, together with his brother-in-law Niels O. Young. In 1845 he travelled to Manchester to buy machinery and recruit skilled employees to a textile factory. The building of the factory started in 1845, and the spinnery was operational from 1846.^[1] From 1872 the company also operated a weavery.^[2]

In 1906 the company changed its name to Knud Graah & Co, and became a limited company. The spinnery operations were demerged from Knud Graah & Co in 1919, and managed by an independent company. The old name Vøiens Bomuldsspinderie was used for this company, but it went defunct in 1923.^[1][2]

The weavery operations of Knud Graah & Co continued. In 1946 it was merged with companies such as Hjula Veveri and moved upstream to Frysja. The new company was named TEFAS, but it went bankrupt in 1955. Knud Graah & Co existed a few years as a wholesaling and real estate company.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Nerheim, Gunnar. "Knud Graah". In Helle, Knut (in Norwegian). Norsk biografisk leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Knud_Graah/utdypning. Retrieved 15 October 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Knud Graah & Co A/S" (in Norwegian). Industrimuseum.no. http://www.industrimuseum.no/bedrifter/a_sknudgraah_co. Retrieved 11 June 2011.