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Being First
- June 15, 2020
Welcome to the first ACME Whistles Website of our next 150 years. The future beckons and this, is our signpost.
The ability to create a ‘first’ often depends on seizing opportunity at the right time linked to a strong awareness of accumulated talents. Joseph Hudson, our founder, was perceptive enough to recognise the big step forward from policemen using rattles to giving clearer, more audible warnings when they used his pioneering Metropolitan whistle. His original ‘ACME first’ was a landmark change, followed by other significant firsts with the famous ACME Thunderer put in the hands of millions of users through peacetime years and hard battles of war as a trusted aid for sporting officials, armed forces, ships and railways, to handle demanding everyday needs.
Being first is still never an easy achievement. While we uphold all the merits of our founding principles, staying first demands a huge commitment to innovation, design excellence and quality engineering at all times. Customers know that buying an ACME product carries an assurance of high performance, reliability and, above all, top class functionality for the role intended.
A ‘first’ created by ACME in whatever era delivers results that are trusted countless times over to repay the investment with lasting benefits. On this website you will find the extent of our expertise through the variety of choices on offer. You will also discover the fascinating history associated with certain items, all of which provides lasting confirmation of our commitment to upholding great traditions with innovative designs and contemporary relevance. Users in more than 119 countries know that Acme always represents quality and guaranteed performance together.
Creating an historic ‘first’ is one thing. Repeating the achievement successfully, time and again, establishes the clear hallmarks of a worldwide reputation built by ACME in 150 years of skilful knowhow.
Over the long journey of the Company there have been Five guiding hands plotting the navigation. Five generations bringing forward their own perspectives and those of their times. Nothing has been allowed to be lost, the corporate memory has been the compass for the future and the ambition to be the Acme has passed on from each one to the next. It is as if the company has a centre of gravity so strong that no new recruit can escape its pull. The Company is a force of its own.
We are often asked what the word ACME means. It means the point at which something is at its best or most developed. Our journey has reached many pinnacles, but we do not recognise a summit. The achievements and the striving will never end-----to be THE ACME.