Darwins Ltd
This company was registered in 1926, with £50,000 ordinary shares and £300,000 preference shares. It occupied Fitzwilliam Works (formerly Sheffield Simplex Motor Car Works) in Sheffield Road, Tinsley. Amidst much publicity, the company launched the mass production of safety razors in Sheffield. Its managing director was Paul Richard Kuehnrich (1871-1932), one of the most colourful characters in Sheffield industry. He had been born in Saxony on 26 January 1871 (the year when that region bec....
