John W. Toy Ltd
John William Toy (1905-1985) was apprenticed to a firm of weighing machine makers and in 1929, shortly after his marriage to Evelyn Marjorie Wilkinson, he formed a company to ‘carry on the business of manufacturers of and dealers in automatic machines’.John W. Toy Ltd. was registered on 31 December 1929 with Toy in virtual sole charge as Managing Director and Secretary. The company was initially successful in supplying automatic shop scales through hire purchase agreements but as the market became saturated it wa....
