This spring knife manufacturer, founded in about 1850, operated from Carver Street under Joseph Hawksley (aged 24 in 1851 and enumerated in the Census as a ‘visitor’ and warehouseman in Cheney Square) and Joseph and Edwin Needham.  The partnership was dissolved in 1852.  Joseph and Edwin Needham then founded Needham Bros.   Joseph Hawksley continued alone for a few years.  However, by 1856 Hawksley & Burch, spring knife manufacturer, had been launched in Robert Street.  Hawksley’s partner was Alfred Burch.  That partnership, too, was soon defunct.  By the early 1860s, Burch was a spring knife manufacturer in Brightmore Street.  Hawksley’s later life has not been traced.  He may have been the Joseph Hawksley who died in New York on 13 July 1858.