William Cooper (Hand Tools) Ltd
This business was apparently incorporated after the Second World War. Its trade mark ‘EMULOUS’ was registered in 1950, when it advertised in The Ironmonger Diary. The firm manufactured hand-forged shoe, linoleum, plumbers’, painters’, and builders’ knives at 25B Weston Street. The owner was William Cooper (1899-1967), who was the son of William (a shoe blade maker) and his wife, Mary Ann. William Sen. was a shoe-knife blade forger in Weston Street by the turn of the....
