J. H. Thompson (Cutlery) Ltd
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....
