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Hjula Væverier was a company based in Oslo, Norway. It was established as a weaving mill in 1855 by Halvor Schou, located near Akerselva. In the 1880s it was the largest textile company in Norway, with a total of about 800 employees. It also had production facilities in Lillestrøm and Fredrikstad. The company closed in 1957.
In fiction
Novelist and playwright Oskar Braaten has pictured the life among workers at the mill.
References
Hjula Væverier Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA