This firm was founded in 1720. William Allday, Sr. was a maker of bellows for blacksmith forges.
      Alldays & Onions Ltd. was formed by a merger of two old companies that went back to 1650. They were founded in Birmingham, England in 1885, by a merger between William Allday & Co. and the bellows maker John Onions to form the Alldays & Onions Pneumatic Engineering Co. Ltd. in 1889.
      By 1936, Alldays and Onions, Ltd. was owned by Mitchell Cotts and Co.
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