125 years of Boot making history! 

During World War II, the much-beleaguered UK Ministry of Labour was faced with a serious problem – foot injuries to inexperienced workers were proliferating. They had been recruited in the absence of professional miners, maintaining the vital supply of coal to the war effort. In 1944 the Ministry sent an emissary, George Denton, an Englishman, to America to meet Mr. Arthur Williams an eccentric American and the inventor of the safety steel toecap for work boots. Over a game of cribbage, a momentous deal was struck which would change the lives of thousands of workers in the UK mining and heavy industry.

An agreement was signed with the "Safety Box Toe Company" of Massachusetts, with George Denton & Sons (Totectors) for the sole rights to their safety steel toecaps in England (and the then British Empire), making Totectors the first steel toecap safety boot manufacturer in the UK. At last, the daily hazardous working environment for the miners would be made safer by the introduction of these boots.

The Totectors brand, born in 1944 can trace its foundations roots back to 1840, when Mr. Benjamin Denton started his boot making business at a factory in Rushden, Northamptonshire. The Totectors name itself needs no introduction in the UK, as it has long been used as the generic term for safety footwear. According to an industry survey "many wearers of safety footwear believed they had bought Totectors footwear even when they might be buying a rival product. Such was the strength of the name that Totectors literally means "safety footwear" to the ordinary user."

The brand is now owned by an Indian consortium, former suppliers to Totectors PLC for 20 years. They have a history of six generations in leather and shoe making. With its own tannery and latest German technology Totectors produces thousands of pairs of safety footwear for Europe, Middle East and the Gulf states.