Horn-u-Copia's Display of Makers

Higham

Manchester

England

1842 - 1960s

• 1842 Joseph Higham (1818-1883) establishes business at 127 Strangeways in Manchester


• 1844-47 added location at 105 Chapel St, Salford 1850-63 added location on Victoria Street


• 1852 now makers to the Army


• 1857 Higham patents "Clear Bore" cornet w/RV (top photo)


• 1863 now makers to the army, navy, & for export; 2 Victoria St
  & 131 Great Ducie


• c1880 Cundy of Boston is sole US agent for Higham



• 1880 new factory added behind office at 127 Strangeways c1881-c1898 Lyon & Healy of Chicago is US agent


• 1883 Higham dies and is succeeded by son-in-law Peter Robinson (1835- ?)


• 1887 Cornet #36352 is given to L&H employee Fuller


• 1889 the business is advertised for sale in June


• 1891 patent for trombone with echo bell


• 1892 open branch in London, 84 Oxford St.


• 1894 46,000 instruments made by this time; 90 employees


• 1899-1900 London store now at 4 Soho St.


• 1904 began woodwind production; instruments are made to Kneller Hall pitch of Bb = 479.3 hz


• c1910 Fillmore Brothers Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, are sole US agents


• 1911 Robinson sold his part of the business (he was 76) Appears that their business relationship with Lyon and Healy ended.


• 1923 bought by Mayers & Harrison, 58 Erskine St, Hulme


• 1928 now at 213-15 Great Jackson St.; serial # around 73000


• 1934 bought by Premier Drum Co.; use "Epic" and "Olympian" tradenames


• 1938 production ends for WWII



• 1945 production resumes with Mayers & Harrison as owners


• 1960s production ends

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