Posts Tagged ‘Wilkinson Sword’

Wilkinson Sword: from swords to razors

Monday, May 25th, 2009
Wilkinson Sword

Wilkinson Sword

Today, I like to write a post about a great razor company: Wilkinson Sword. Wilkinson Sword, founded in London in 1772, was first manufacturing swords, and then started to produce different kind of gardening tools and shaving accessories like razors and razor blades. Wilkinson Sword has also manufactured in the past guns, bayonets, and other objects such as typewriters, garden shears, scissors, and motorcycles. Wilkinson Sword has manufactured all its ranges of products in three UK sites over its history: in Chelsea and Acton next to London, Cramlington in Northumberland and Bridgend in Wales, where they made gardening tools. In 2000, an executive decision was made to close its razor plant in the UK and consolidated its growing production in Germany. (more…)

Wilkinson Sword Mow the Lawn

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

A great video found on Youtube for women’ razors manufactured by Wilkinson Sword, the Quattro for Women, made by our friends from down under. A very funny advert titled Mow the Lawn for the amateurs of humour that we are:

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