Slack, Sellars & Co., Saw Manufacturers etc., Townhead Street later Townhead Works, Lancaster Street

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Sack, Sellars & Co., saws, files, edge tools etc., Townhead Street. Established 1830

Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862.

Whites Directory 1837

Slack, Sellars & Grayson, saw, ledge blade, spiral cutter & spring knife manufacturer & dealers in files and cutlery. 3, Townhead Street. 

Rodgers Directory 1841

Slack, Sellars & Grayson, saw cutters, ledger blades, spiral cutters, spring bed, elastic steel busks, calico printer webs, dealers in files, cutlery etc. h. 39 Townhead Street. 

Slaters Directory 1846

Slack, Sellars & Grayson, ledger blade, spiral cutters, machine manufacturers. 39 Townhead Street. 

Whites Directory 1852

Slack, Sellars & Grayson, saw ledger blade, spiral cutter, file, spring bed etc., manufacturers & merchants, 37 Townend Street. 

Slack, Thomas, saw & etc., manufacturer. h. 6 Hanover Street. 

Sellars, William, saw & etc. manufacturer ( Slack, Sellars & Grayson) h. Nelson Place. 

Grayson, Henry, saw & etc. manufacturer (Slack, Sellars & Grayson) h. Radford Place. 

 

1856 Grayson died 

Whites Directory 1857

Slack, Sellars & Co., saw, ledger blade, spiral cutter, spring bed & etc. 41 Townhead Street. 

Advertisement 1866

 

1920 one of companies brought under Neepsend Steel & Tool Corporation. 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Slack,_Sellars_and_Grayson

 

Advertisement for Slack, Sellars and Co., Wicker. 1889

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y11999&pos=17&action=zoom&id=120221

 

Advertisements for Slack, Sellars & Co., Townhead Works, Lancaster Street. Trade Catalogue about 1900 Sheffield Local Studies Ref. 631.93 SSTQ. 

Circular Saws

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y13419&pos=9&action=zoom

All kinds of saws, steel files  & edge tools. 

Saws

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y13420&pos=11&action=zoom&id=132339

 

 

 

Full size drawings of cuts of files and rasps. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y13423&pos=14&action=zoom&id=132342

 

Wrenches, spanners & presses etc. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y13424&pos=15&action=zoom&id=132343

 

Advertising postcard celebrating 100 years in the art of saw making 1930

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;p01712&pos=2&action=zoom&id=141074

 

Hardening of saws at Slack, Sellars & Co., saw manufacturers, Townhead Works. Lancaster Street. April 1970

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s33994&pos=1&action=zoom&id=108189

 

Records  of Slack, Sellars & Co. miscellaneous papers, papers & price lists, held at Hawley Collection, Kelham Island Museum. 

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/e75da919-9bcd-484b-bb8d-093d6ff61c45

 

Alamay photos of Slack, Sellars & Co. 

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/slack-sellars-%26-co.html?sortBy=relevant

Paul Sellers sharpening an old saw of Slack, Sellars & Co. 

https://www.thewoodworkermag.com/writer/233195