Hiatt No 5 Handcuffs Marked \"WRC\" (West Riding Constabulary) With Key. PO 107. Hiatt No 5 Handcuffs Marked \"WRC\" (West Riding Constabulary) With Key. PO 107. Miscellaneous

The origins of Hiatt and Company Ltd. lie in the late eighteenth century, circa 1780, and made handcuffs, leg-irons, manacles and other devices to shackle humans for more than 200 years. In 1818 Thomas Griffin Hiatt appears in the Wrightson Directory for the first time as a manufacturer of felon's irons and gate locks, located on Moor St. in Birmingham. Sometime in the next few years Hiatt moved around the corner to 26 Masshouse Lane, where he manufactured felon's irons, gate lock, handcuffs, and horse and dog collars. The Hiatt Company remained at the 26 Masshouse Lane address, until the premises were destroyed by a World War II German bombing in 1941. The company shut its doors for the last time at its Birmingham workshops in 2008. These Darby cuffs are a light steel colour marked to both cuffs ‘ BRITISH MADE-WARRANTED WROUGHT – HIATT BEST - & W.R.C ((West Riding Constabulary). Both are stamped 1939. The key is marked with an X 2082 and HIATT. The cuffs are working and in very good condition with a nice patina. The price includes UK delivery. PO 107.