Swann-Morton Ltd
Walter Robinson Swann (1900-1980) was born in Sheffield, the only son of Walter Morton Swann (1875-1906) and Almena née Robinson. The Swann family was from March, Cambridgeshire. Walter’s father, a mechanical engineer, died from tuberculosis after moving to Sheffield. In 1917, Walter was apprenticed as an engineer and became a craftsman fitter for a Sheffield safety razor blade maker. By 1924, he had become, in his own words, a ‘thorough-going revolutionary Socialist’ and trade union activist (....
