H. Ellis & Sons

[lastminute]

..whats happened to H. Ellis of Leeds Road, Bradford..quality tools etc.....seen shutters down one Saturday morning and no answer to calls?

 

[dc_ni]

They went into liquidation on 16th Sept 2016

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05104516/insolvency

 

[xy mosian]

Shame that. It's a long time since I was in there, the last shop I knew of selling nails by weight.
Back in the mid '80's I had bought a 10 1/2 plane with very short blade. The older guy was called in from the back with a tatty old cardboard box, rooting through he pulled one out and charged me some miniscule amount as " It looks as if we don't sell many of these! "

The shelves behind the counter were filled with old brown cardboard boxes labelled with names suggesting strange shaped carving gouges. They were even able to show me a straight pein hammer, the more usual hammers being cross pein of course.

I wonder what will/has happened to the remaining stock.

xy

 

[Doug71]

I heard they had closed, Richard Ellis was a great guy but cost me a fortune as he introduced me to Festool back in the day when nobody had heard of it or stocked it, and it cost even more then it does now!

Always wondered how it kept going as they never seemed to move with the times with websites etc, always had great service from them though.

 

[workshopted]

Does anyone know if H. Ellis ever made combination mortice/marking/cutting gauges? I'm trying to track down the maker of such a tool in my collection - no name on it but it's stamped Patent No 10786 and it also has a Rd No 123194 mark.

Here's a photo of the gauges.

 

[AndyT]

I think it's more likely that your gauge has an incomplete mark of J H Ellis and Sons Ltd (John Henry Ellis). According to Tweedale's Directory, they made gauges and other woodworking tools at Queen's Road Sheffield. Established 1884, they lasted until 1937. There's a picture of an advert that includes gauges - ordinary ones, but six different types - on page 170.

 

[AndyT]

Bingo!

Ted, this is the one you were looking for:

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/ ... 189510786A

or this link to go straight to the original documents

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/ ... 134fa9cdcf

1895, John Henry Ellis, Sheffield, improved combination marking, cutting and morticing Joiner's gauge.

Sorry it took me so long...

 

[workshopted]

Only a nice box of quality mince pies could make me forgive you, Andy... Grin!