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Oakes E. M. Oakes & Company -
Oakes Edward Oakes & Son -
Oakes Hawksworth, Oakes & Company -
Oakes Oakes, Tompkin & Ward -
Oakes Shemeld & Oakes -
Oakes William & John Oakes -
Oates Albert Oates -
Oates Francis Oates -
Oates George Oates -
Oates Isaac Oates & Son -
Oates Luke Oates & Company -
Oates Oates, Colley & Wigham / Oates & Colley -
Oates Robinson & Oates -
Oates William Oates -
Oates William Oates & Company -
Oborne Oborne & Gunning -
Ogden Bingham & Ogden -
Ogden Ogden Brothers & Derby -
Old Old Hall -
Oldfield C. Oldfield -
Oldham J. H. Oldham -
Oldham James Oldham & Company -
Oliver J. Oliver & Sons -
Oliver Oliver & Bower Ltd -
Oliver Oliver & Ogle -
Oliver Oliver and Webster -
Oliver William Oliver -
Oneida British Oneida Community Ltd -
Osbaldiston Louis Osbaldiston & Company -
Osborn Charles Osborn -
Osborn Clark & Hall / Clark & Osborn -
Osborn Osborn & Sons -
Osborne Alfred Osborne -
Osborne Edward Osborne -
Osborne Osborne & Company (Sheffield) Ltd -
Osborne Osborne Tableware Ltd -
Osborne Percy Osborne & Son Ltd -
Osborne Thomas E. Osborne & Company Ltd -
Osborne Thomas Osborne / Benjamin Osborne -
Otley Thomas Otley & Sons Ltd -
Oughtibridge Oughtibridge Equitable Co-operative & Industrial Society Ltd -
Ovicto Ovicto -
Owen Charles Owen & Company / Owen Brothers -
Owen Latham & Owen Ltd -
Owen Owen & Webster -
Owen Robert Owen -
Owen Robert Owen / Denison Owen -
Oxley Atkin, Oxley & Co -
Oxley James Oxley (Sheffield) Ltd -
Oxley John Oxley & Company -
Oxley Law, Atkin & Oxley -
Oxley Thos Oxley Ltd -
Oxspring George Oxspring
William Oates
Oates was in business by 1865 in Monmouth Street and advertised in the local directory. Sardine Works targeted a niche market: can-opener knives. An advertisement in 1876 shows him operating from No. 5 Court, Leicester Street, and living in Wadsley. He sold a wide range of trade knives, but particularly ‘Every Description of Knives to Open Australian Meat Cans; Hook Knives, and Knives to Open Sardine Boxes’. Appropriately, his trade mark was a picture of can-opener. Oates was a....
