After the First World War, Walter Tyzack – the director of Needham, Veall & Tyzack – tried to encourage firms to rationalise. He failed to interest Wostenholm’s in a joint-venture, but in 1919 agreed a merger between his own firm and Joseph Elliot (Hollis Croft), Lockwood Bros (Spital Hill), Nixon & Winterbottom (Pond Street), Southern & Richardson (Doncaster Street), and Thomas Turner (Suffolk Road). These firms were under a holding company known as Sheffield Cutlery Manufactu....