Croft Cutlery Forging Company Ltd
This firm was founded in about 1927. A newspaper advertisement described it as a maker of goffed cutlery blanks in stainless or Bessemer steels. The manager was George Leonard Latham (1880-1945), who was the son of a watchmaker. The firm had previously been at 53/55 Garden Street, but moved to Croft Works, John Street (Sheffield Daily Independent, 31 December 1927). It advertised scale and whittle tang blades and abrasive wheels for machine grinding. In 1933, the business launched a scheme....
