This firm was incorporated in 1948, with £30,000 capital and four partners: Harry Akers (1900-1975), his wife Constance Annie Akers (1904-1987) , Edward Vincent Dickinson (1903-1971), and his wife Violet Hilda Dickinson (1902-1979).  It was listed in 1951 in Leadmill Road as ‘hollow ground cutlery manufacturers’.  It supplied the trade with carving and kitchen cutlery.  Whitham & Sykes (1953) listed ‘three queens and device’ as the trade mark.  In 1957, the address was Furnival Lane.  In 1964, Harry Akers and E.V. Dickinson registered a patent for carving fork guards and fork rests (GB966321A) using the Furnival Lane address.

In February 1967 Companies House records a certificate of incorporation for Nether Green Cutlery Limited with nominal capital of £10,000.  Amongst its objects it states that the company is established ‘to acquire and take over a going concern and to carry on the business of Cutlery Manufacturers now carried on at Furnival Lane Works, Eyre Lane, Sheffield under the style or firm of "Akers & Dickinson Limited" together with the assets of the proprietors of that business...'.  However, by the end of that decade it had disappeared from local directories.

Nothing further is recorded until June 1986 when a change of director is returned by someone acting on behalf of Needle Industries Ltd., Arrow Works, Studley, Warwickshire.  This is followed up by a change in the registered office of Akers & Dickinson Limited in November 1986 to Nursery Works, Little London Road, Sheffield.  Accounts for a dormant company were filed to 31 December 1985 in the following year stating  that the company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Needle Industries (Sheffield) Limited with the ultimate holding company for them being Coats Viyella plc.  The company continues to file dormant company accounts, but ownersip has changed over that period following the ownership of its immediate parent undertaking, Rotax Razor Limited.  They had assumed responsibility as another part of Coats Viyella, but after 1989 they had surfaced with new owners.  Rotax have had a two or three different ultimate parents registered in a variety of places - Denmark, Jersey and Luxemburg.  As of December 2018 the ultimate parent is the ConvaTec Group plc and the company still remains non-trading with the latest registered office address being in Deeside, Flintshire.