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 century.  The firm became ‘& Son’ after the mid-1920s.  He died on 4 May 1938, aged 67, and was buried at Crookes Cemetery.  His son was living in Newbould Lane in 1939, when he was described as a shoe and butcher knife manufacturer and hand forger (Register of England & Wales, 1939).  William Cooper (Hand Tools) Ltd had moved to 63 Allen Street by the early 1960s.  William Cooper, of Newbould Lane, died on 4 January 1967.  He left £17,726.  In 1981, his was absorbed by Tyzack, Sons & Turner at Little London Works.