This partnership began in about 1894 and advertised its electro-plate products in The Foreign Buyers’ Catalogue (1895). The background of one of the partners, James Hardy, is obscure (though he was living in Woodland Road, Norton Woodseats, in 1901).  The other partner was James Turner Whiteley (1862-1936), who was the son of James Whiteley, a fork maker, and his wife, Sarah.  J. T. Whiteley became a pearl and ivory fluter, before joining Hardy at Cambridge Street.  The partnership ended in about 1903, when James T. Whiteley continued alone at the same address until the 1920s. In the 1930s, his residential address was Alderson Place. He died on 12 January 1936 at The Royal Hospital, Sheffield, leaving £1,347.  He was buried at City Road Cemetery.