© Ken Hawley Collection Trust - K.0656
This firm was registered in 1950, with a capital of £1,000. In the brief prospectus in The Sheffield Telegraph, 28 December 1950, Mead was listed with B. Thomas & Co (Cutlers) Ltd and John Bain & Co (Cutlers) Ltd. The subscribers were Bernard M. Miller and D. Miller, Whiteley Wood Road;and Doris K. Cutts, Langer Lane Chesterfield. Bernard Miller operated M. Bernard & Son at 60 Rockingham Street – the same address as J. Mead.
The firm was not listed in the Sheffield directory in 1951 and presumably had ceased trading.