In about 1878, Walter Jeffcock Ramsbottom (b.1849), the son of a brass turner, launched W. J. Ramsbottom (as ‘successor’ to Thomas & Joseph Colley) at Vine Scissors Works, 38 Upper St Philip’s Road.  In 1881, his workforce of 26 men produced fine steel scissors, tailors’ shears, butchers’, putty, and palette knives.  The company advertised in 1887.  Ramsbottom was still involved in scissors manufacture in 1901, when he lived in Western Bank.  His trade mark was a spinning wheel and the words ‘I SERVE’.  The business adopted limited liability in about 1909.  The ownership of the business becomes confusing at this point.  W. J. Ramsbottom himself was no longer listed in Sheffield directories.  By the 1920s, he had moved to London.  He died at The Mall, Southgate, on 21 July 1927, leaving £4,418.   

In 1911, the secretary and director of the firm was Ernest Day (1880-1956).  Also based at Vine Works by 1911, was ‘Robert William Handley’ – a name which Ramsbottom’s may have acquired, alongside the ‘LUZ’ mark.   The connection between the two firms is unknown, though it is interesting to note that the fathers of both Ernest Day and Robert W. Handley had been born at Coal Aston, near Dronfield.  Handley was listed until the 1920s;  W. J. Ramsbottom appeared in Sheffield directories at Vine Works until about 1962.   Day was also director of Sheffield Shears Co Ltd.