CELEBRATING SIXTY YEARS OF UK MANUFACTURING

While Queen Elizabeth was still a princess, Albert Wheatley met an engineering friend who as looking for a manufacturer of buttons for a raincoat that was about to be marketed. Mr Wheatley thought he could do the job. He won the work, created the moulds, bought the machinery and, in 1952, began button production in the garage of his house at Heaton Moor, Stockport.