Wilson & Pitt
James Wilson and William Linley Pitt began in 1859 as a manufacturer and general merchant of table cutlery, pen and pocket knives, razors, scissors, butchers’ knives and steels, and shoe knives. They advertised in 1859 as ‘late with Joseph Rodgers & Sons’, using a ‘TRIDENT’ mark (granted in 1859). William L. Pitt (born c.1837) was the son of John Pitt, who was a glass and lead merchant in Waingate. William had been a merchant’s clerk. John Pitt loaned his son ab....
