Sep 25: WORKED FOR 140 YEARS
Sheffield has always been a city of makers — and Winnard has been part of that story since the late 1800s.
The photographs shown here capture one of our oldest workshop machines:
a Victorian?era grinder that served generations of engineers. Right up until October 2025,
it was still doing exactly what it had done since the days of steam power — grinding and
finishing butchers’ sharpening rods with the same steady rhythm it kept for more than a century.
? It’s more than a piece of equipment.
? It’s a reminder of where we come from.
Every hub, every brake component, every engineered solution we produce today carries that
same Sheffield DNA: durability, honesty, and pride in doing the job properly.
Winnard managed to save this historic machine from being scrapped and is now on display at
our Rotherham warehouse.