This firm was started in 1932 as Howe & Thompson, Arundel Street, by Harold Howe and John Harry Thompson.  The latter was probably J. H. Thompson (1889-1974), the son of Herbert (a file cutter) and his wife, Martha.  John became a table knife cutler, then a foreman.  By 1935, he operated alone as J .H. Thompson, cutlery manufacturer, at 72 Arundel Street (the factory of Butcher).  It manufactured pen, pocket and hunting knives, besides table and dessert cutlery.  Thompson had filed a patent for a device for opening cans in 1944; and another for an improvement in scouts and sheath knives in 1958.  In 1948, the firm was registered as J. H. Thompson (Cutlery) Ltd, with £5,000 capital, and the trade marks ‘SABRE’ and ‘CALYPSO’.  It ceased business in the early 1960s.