J. Stead and Co
of Manor Works, Sheffield. Telephone: Sheffield 20512. Cables: "Steadfast". (1929)
Ditto Address. Telephone: Sheffield 22283. Cables: "Steadfast, Sheffield". (1947)
Founded by Jack Stead
1914 Advert for staff. J. Stead and Co, Manor Works, Cricket Inn Road.[1]
1919 Advert for 'Songster Needles' - no address.[2]
1919 J. Stead & Co. wire manufacturers, hackle and gill pin manufacturers, Manor Works, Cricket Inn Road
1928 Advert. 'Songster Gramophone Needles' by J. Stead and Co, 'Manufacturers of Talking Machine Needes, Manor Needle Works, Sheffield.'[3]
1929 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Gramophone Needles, Mainsprings, Governor Springs and Sound Boxes. (Stand No. MM.20) [4]
1947 British Industries Fair Advert for: "Songster" Gramophone Products (Needles and Soundboxes); "Vulcan" Mainsprings for Clocks and Gramophones; Industrial Springs; Industrial and Textile Pins; "Stead" Screwdrivers; High Speed and Carbon Steel Drill Bars. Also as Specialists in Meter and Clock Spindles, etc. (Music and Radio Section - Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand Np. C. 1546) [5]
c1849 Commenced making tools - see advert
c1960 Added 'Darwin Tools Division' to the name
1966 Patent - Improvements in or relating to screwdrivers. [6]
1967 Patent - Improvements in or relating to sliding-blade knife tools. [7]
c1983/4 Went into liquidation and was bought by Richard H. Green
Became Steadfast Tools