This cutlery manufacturer was founded by Arthur Davies (1882-1956?).  He was born in Sheffield, the son of John E. Davies – a saw hardener from Leeds – and his wife, Sarah.  By 1911, Arthur was the manager of a cutlery factory.  He continued as a manager until after the First World War, living at Penryhn Road. 

In about 1920, Davies joined forces with William Henry Fleming (1862-1935) to establish Fleming, Son & Davies, a cutlery manufacturer in Cambridge Street.  Davies withdrew in 1922 and established A. Davies & Co, at 28 Cambridge Street.  He soon advertised for two women workers (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 27 September 1924).  By the late 1920s, Davies’ address was Eldon Place Works, 145 Eldon Street.  His workers seem to have been mainly involved in finishing table knives.  He advertised for 16-18 year-old girls for hafting and mirror polishing (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 21 September 1929). 

From the mid-1930s until the early 1940s, A. Davies & Co did not appear in the cutlery trades listing in directories.  In the Register of England & Wales (1939), Arthur Davies was living at 24 Daleview Road and was working as a cutlery manager again.  Curiously, his wife, Minnie, was enumerated as a cutlery manufacturer on her own account.  Perhaps Arthur had filed for bankruptcy and was trading under his wife’s name?  Their son, Alan (1921-2002), was working as a clerk for a provision merchant.  Towards the end of the Second World War, A. Davies & Co reappeared in directories at 37 Porter Street.  By 1948, the firm was a private limited company: A. Davies & Co (Cutlers) Ltd, Indom Works, 37 Porter Street.

In the early 1950s, the firm began advertising cutlery, spoons, forks, fish eaters, canteens, EPNS, and chrome stainless plate.  Davies’ hired a London agent, Messrs H. A. Pegler & Co, at Holborn Viaduct.  The company also traded in Eire and Northern Ireland and acquired a South African and Rhodesian representative in Johannesburg. The owner of the business is unidentified, but presumably Davies’ remained under family control. In the early 1950s, it attempted to diversify and expand into woodworking tools (including saws), cuttings tools for engineers, and general hardware.  From about 1957 to 1967, the address was Moore Street.  At the end of the 1960s, its office was at Leadmill Road. It seems to have disappeared from directories in the early 1970s, but was listed again in 1981 at Albreda House, Lydgate Lane.