This cutlery and electro-plate manufacturer was launched as part of Sheffield Steel Products Ltd in 1920.  The latter was a conglomerate, which had been organised by A. H. Wild.  Little further is known about the origins of Eagle Plate, though it may have evolved from Chaucer Plating Co at Clough Road.  By the summer of 1920, Eagle Plate was up and running and advertising for spoon and fork insiders, ‘used to best work’ (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 8 June 1920).  Other advertisements offered jobs for spoon and fork machine filers and scratch brushers for the plating department.  The factory was located in Exchange Works, a tenement block in Egerton street, which housed similar businesses (see Sowden, and Viner & Hall).  

A directors’ report for Sheffield Steel Products informed shareholders that Eagle Plate had ‘already passed from the development into the productive phase’ (Sheffield Independent, 5 August 1920).  The firm was engaged in making spoons and forks on a ‘bulk production basis’ and also involved in silver plated holloware.  Occasional reports in the press, however,  depicted traditional methods, with the employment of hand buffers.  The hazards were traditional, too, with a factory blaze in 1928 destroying spindles and benches in the buffing shop (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 23 April 1928).   Advertisements for roughers, insiders, and dolliers suggest that the firm was busy on the eve of the Second World War.  Presumably, Eagle Plate Co remained part of Sheffield Steel Products, though it is difficult to say for sure.  It was listed in directories until the end of the 1950s, but then became defunct.