Acme

J Hodson & Co have been making specialist whistles since 1870 in their Birmingham based factory.

Joseph Hudson started work at the age of 12 in the engineering workshops of Birmingham. He trained for 7 years as a toolmaker learning to do by hand the many tasks so often undertaken by a machine today.

In these early times he learned the skills that made him a superb craftsman in metal, later forming J Hudson & Co Whistles Ltd, trading as Acme Whistles.