This firm began at the start of the First World War as Sheffield Scissors & Razor Co Ltd at Chaucer Works, Clough Road.  Capitalised at £5,000, it dealt in finished metal blades and scissors, stamped scissors blanks, razors, cutlery, cutlery blanks, bayonets, and various tools (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 11 February 1915).   The firm was organised by A. H. Wild, with the subscribers listed as Arthur John Arnold and John Arthur Perry Arnold.  The Arnolds later started Arnold & Son.  Sheffield Scissors was reported to be executing very large government orders for razors, scissors, pincer, pliers, turnscrews, wire cutters, and shears (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 10 June 1916).  It was apparently installing new plant, so that it could supply products, such as scissors, in which Germany formerly had the bulk of the trade (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 6 July 1916).   

At the end of 1916, the company was wound up.  Its ‘successor’ was Sheffield Scissors, Razor & Tool Co Ltd, Chaucer Works, Clough Road.   Capital was £10,000 (£9,000 of which was in preference shares) and the subscribers were A. E. C. Ludlum, Change Alley, solicitor, and Richard Hunt, Lennox Street, solicitor’s managing clerk.  A. H. Wild signed on as a director (Sheffield Independent, 3 February 1917).   Apparently, Henry Sayer (or Sayers) and Clement Foreman Carr (Foreman Cutlery Co) were involved with the enterprise.   Sayer was the general manager.  The firm placed a full-page advertisement in Wilson & Twigg (1919)¹, which was dominated by tools (such as pliers and chisels), but also offered traditional razors and scissors.  The same volume had an advertisement for shears and tool makers Stephen Clark & Son (‘established 1814’), which was also operated by Sheffield Scissors, Razors & Tool Co at Chaucer Works.  The trade mark of both firms was ‘CARRY ON’.   In 1920, Sheffield Scissors was absorbed by Sheffield Steel Products.  Chaucer Works was next occupied by Thomas Ward & Sons Ltd.

^1. Wilson, R T, and Twigg, E J, Industrial Sheffield and Rotherham (London, 1919)