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Edwin P. Wood Ltd was registered as a private limited company in 1922, with £1,000 capital. It was a manufacturer and dealer in cutlery and electro-plate at 56 Garden Street. The directors were Edwin Pask Wood (1885-1952) and Harry Crapper.
Wood had been born in Sheffield, the son of Frederick (a railway parcels clerk) and his wife, Esther. Before the First World War, Edwin had worked as a bellows maker. When his father, Frederick, died in 1931, he was described as an authority on local history (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 4 April 1931). In 1939, the capital of Edwin P. Wood Ltd was increased by £1,000, but in that year its name was changed to Fel-Electric Ltd. Cutlery was abandoned and henceforth the company specialised in crack detection equipment. Wood may have left the company, because at the end of 1939 he registered Beaumont & Wood Ltd, with £2,000 capital. This was a tool maker at Fitzroy Works, Headford Street (Sheffield Telegraph & Independent, 19 December 1939).
Edwin P. Wood, of Cobden Place, Sheffield, died on 30 June 1952, aged 66. He left £1,736. Beaumont & Wood was wound up in 1955. Fel-Electric continued to operate from Sidney Street.