Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co Ltd
Rather than being a Sheffield manufacturer, the knife in our Collection is most likely to have been made in Sheffield for Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., a department store chain originally established in Calcutta with branches in twenty other cities in India, along with branches in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai.The founder of Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co, was a British Liberal Party politician, Sir Robert Laidlaw (1856-1917). His business life started in Hawick and he went to India in 1877, residing in Calcutta fo....
