This firm began as British Oneida Community Ltd, which was registered in 1926 at Walkley, Sheffield (capital £15,000). It was a subsidiary of American group Oneida Ltd, which became one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of ‘COMMUNITY PLATE’ cutlery and dinnerware (and had originated in 1848 as a religious settlement near Oneida Lake, New York State). The Sheffield firm planned to market electro-plated spoons and forks, but not cutlery. The output was to be sold to....