This co-operative venture was registered in Sheffield in November 1916. In the local directory (1919), it was listed as a cutlery manufacturer, 51 Athol Road, Norton Woodseats.

It apparently had 160 members, who each had to hold at least one £1 share. Profit in 1919 was about £500. But in the following year, the Society appeared in court to answer a summons for failing to render an annual return (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 11 August 1920).

In 1923, the Society filed for voluntary liquidation. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 5 January 1924, carried a notice of the auction at Athol Road. It listed a 30 H.P. gas engine, four razor grinding machines, a variety of buffing and grinding spindles, pulleys, anvils and bellows, warehouse tables, and other working tools.  The factory’s later tenants included Charles Myers (maker of the ‘Kropp’ razor) and then Ragg’s, another razor manufacturer.