Prestige Kitchen Tools, a range of 17 implements commissioned by

the company's German factory in 1976 and developed in Japan as

one-piece tools with no visible joints between handles and working

ends. It achieved world-wide popularity and led to

widespread adoption (and plagiarism) of its radical technology.

Below, stainless and plastic handled

scissors, made by Harrison Fisher of Sheffield under their trade name

Taylor's Eye-Witness, from 1964 to the present.

Collaboration between this factory and Old Hall, with Robert

providing the guiding design hand, led to a substantial British

presence in markets that were otherwise dominated by Continental names.