In 1920, Bunting, Langdon & Company Ltd was registered as a private company, with £5,000 capital. Almost the only source on the business is the brief prospectus presented in The Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 27 May 1920. The new company was to take over (i) the cutlery manufacturer and case maker E. P. Saville & Co, at John Street and The Moor, Sheffield; and at Barber’s Lane, Luton; and (ii) cutlery manufacturer Langdon & Ridge, at Button Lane, Sheffield: and at Raymond House, Theobolds Road, London WC.

Several directors were listed:  C. H. Bunting, Langdon Road, Sheffield; Edward Jesse Burnett, Wayland Road, Sheffield; P. Langdon, Narborne Avenue, Clapham; J. Leeming, Taplin Road, Sheffield; Harold Joseph Crookes Ridge, Ringinglow Road, Sheffield; and Edward Francis Saville, Nottingham Road, Sheffield. 

E. F. Saville (1888-1967) was a printer and compositor. Harold J. C. Ridge (1882-1956) was the silversmith son of Joseph Ridge, who managed the noted electro-plate firm of John Round & Son Ltd.  Frustratingly, it has not yet been possible to identify C. H. Bunting and P. Langdon. In Sheffield directories, Bunting, Langdon & Co was listed at John Street. But within three years or so of its founding the company had apparently disappeared without trace. Ridge is known to have launched a new business – H. Ridge & Co, Norfolk Street, stainless fittings maker – but this was bankrupt in 1925. He owed over £1,000, due to ‘insufficient business to justify expenses, competition, and lack of capital’ (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 29 January 1926).

After the Second World War, the Potter family (see J. H. Potter & Sons Ltd) resurrected the company name. Until 1953 (when it was liquidated again) Bunting Langdon & Co Ltd enjoyed a new lease of life at Enterprise Works, St Mary’s Road.