Lees & Colley Ltd
The directors of this cutlery firm were Albert Thomas Lees (1869-1945) and Geoffrey Alan Davies-Colley (1892-1964). Lees had been born in Sheffield, the son of Joseph (a railway spring painter) and his wife, Mary. Albert became a cutlery traveller. By 1925, he was a cutlery manufacturer based at 19 Eyre Street. Davies-Colley had been born in Burnage, Manchester, the son of Robert James (a secretary) and his wife, Anna.In 1931, Lees & Colley was registered as a private company, with £3,000 capital, at 34....
