Louis Schindler (1870-1916) was born in Sheffield, the son of Isaac Maurice Schindler (1832-1911), a watch-maker, and his wife, Rebecca.  Isaac Maurice was Jewish and had been born in ‘Russian Poland’.  Louis became a spoon and fork filer.   In 1910, he married Hilda née Brown (1884-1947), who had been born in Nottingham.  She was the daughter of a draper, Levy Brown (also Polish-Russian), and his wife, Rachel.  Louis traded under the name ‘Louis Harrison’ as a spoon and fork manufacturer in Solly Street.  But his career proved brief: he died at Ecclesall Road on 22 July 1916, aged 46, and was buried at Ecclesfield Jewish Cemetery.  

He left £446 to Hilda.  She continued ‘L. Harrison’ in Solly Street with Jacob Brown, but this was dissolved in 1921.  Hilda continued the ‘Louis Harrison’ business alone and by the mid-1920s she had relocated it to Stanley Street in the Wicker.  In 1930, Hilda registered the trade mark ‘TRUSTY’.  She succeeded in expanding the business, even during the difficult years of the Depression.  She exploited the demand for stainless table cutlery, and electro-plated and chromium-plated spoons and forks.  Presentation canteens of cutlery were a speciality.  She advertised Waverley Works at Stanley Street and Joiner Street as ‘The Most Efficient and Up-To-Date Factory’, with the output ‘specially designed for large-scale production for overseas and wholesale trade only’.  

She became prominent enough to be featured in a newspaper article, which was headlined: ‘Women Invading City’s Steel Trade’ (Sheffield Telegraph & Daily Independent, 25 March 1939).  The article profiled ‘Mrs L. Harrison’ as the only woman cutlery manufacturer in the city.  At Waverley Works, Stanley Street, she had installed the latest machinery for the firm’s (supposedly) 600 workers.  The report stated that she traded around the world and described her success as ‘phenomenal’.  The article continued:

She is down at business every morning at 8.30 and often does not leave till 6.30.  She pays her employees on production.  She supplies free tea to boys and girls under 16, and has the welfare of the staff very much at heart.  Everybody is happy and the girls sing at their work.  No one’s liberty is interfered with, and they please themselves about such things as the use of make-up at work.

In 1945, she sold the business.  Hilda Schindler [Harrison] died at The Palace Hall, Buxton, on 28 August 1947.  She was buried under her ‘Harrison’ name at Ecclesfield Jewish Cemetery.  Her estate was resworn at £56,961.  In 1950, Harrison’s became a private limited company (trademark ‘TROVATO’), when it also incorporated William Gallimore & Sons Ltd.  It ceased business in 1964.  The name was acquired by Sipelia Group.