Roger Inman
© Ken Hawley Collection Trust - K.2927
Roger Inman (1915-2013) registered the patents on this knife in the UK and USA in 1957/58. It is an unusual pattern. Inman was the co-managing director of Harrison Fisher & Co Ltd. Since the knife does not carry the Harrison Fisher name, this particular knife may have been a prototype. He was also a director at Taylor's Eye Witness and at John Sanderson & Son as well as being the President of the Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers' Association and the chairman of the Cutlery and Allied Trades Research Organisation in his career.