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c 1925 '''Darwin and Milner''' purchased the Sheffield [[Simplex Motor Works]] at Tinsley, and set about equipping them for the production, on a mass scale, of safety razor blades. The firm was already engaged in a variety of branches of the steel trade, but razor blade was a new departure and it has now been developed to a very large and promising extent. The blades were made of a patented cobalt steel. The present output was about a million a week, and employment was found for about 1400 people, whom of nearly a thousand were girls, who all work in one great shop that covered an acre of ground. <ref>The Engineer 1926/04/09</ref> | c 1925 '''Darwin and Milner''' purchased the Sheffield [[Sheffield-Simplex |Simplex Motor Works]] at Tinsley, and set about equipping them for the production, on a mass scale, of safety razor blades. The firm was already engaged in a variety of branches of the steel trade, but razor blade was a new departure and it has now been developed to a very large and promising extent. The blades were made of a patented cobalt steel. The present output was about a million a week, and employment was found for about 1400 people, whom of nearly a thousand were girls, who all work in one great shop that covered an acre of ground. <ref>The Engineer 1926/04/09</ref> | ||
1926 Taken over by the newly established company [[Darwins]].<ref>The Engineer 1926/04/09</ref> | 1926 Taken over by the newly established company [[Darwins]].<ref>The Engineer 1926/04/09</ref> | ||
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of Soho Ponds, Sheffield.
1798 Company Established.
c 1925 Darwin and Milner purchased the Sheffield Simplex Motor Works at Tinsley, and set about equipping them for the production, on a mass scale, of safety razor blades. The firm was already engaged in a variety of branches of the steel trade, but razor blade was a new departure and it has now been developed to a very large and promising extent. The blades were made of a patented cobalt steel. The present output was about a million a week, and employment was found for about 1400 people, whom of nearly a thousand were girls, who all work in one great shop that covered an acre of ground. [1]
1926 Taken over by the newly established company Darwins.[2]
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