This was firm was registered in 1947 as an engineers and sheet metal worker at 172a Bramall Lane.  Capital was £2,000.  The directors were John Arthur Lanson (1896-1964) and his sons, Leslie Henry Lanson (1921-1988) and Desmond Hanson (1923-1982).  The family came from Handsworth, where apparently J. Arthur had been a colliery worker.  Curiously, the family name was ‘Mycock’.  After Arthur’s marriage to Maud née Webb in 1920, the family is only traceable as Mycock.  In 1939, Arthur and Maud Mycock appeared in the Register of England & Wales, living at Driver Street.  Arthur was an engineer of automatic vending machines.  In the Register, for some reason their names were crossed out to read John Arthur Lanson and Maud Lanson.

By the early 1950s, J. A. Lanson & Sons had switched to cutlery manufacture.  It had about fifty workers; John A. Lanson was the managing director.  On one occasion, he was in dispute with the workforce.  Seven women workers left after he apparently told them that their wages would be cut if they joined a trade union (Yorkshire Post, 10 May 1955).  The firm seems to have ceased trading by 1957; and in the following year, Durage Cutlery Co Ltd (a firm of which J. A. Lanson was director) was bankrupt.  In 1971, J. A. Lanson & Sons Ltd was struck off the Register of Companies.  John Arthur had died in 1964.  Leslie Henry Lanson, of Bramley Avenue, died on 20 August 1988, aged 67.  His brother, Desmond, died at Solihull, Birmingham, on 6 June 1982.  They left about £70,000 and £51,657, respectively.