Horn-u-Copia's Display of Makers

• 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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