Scraping all the money together they had tenaciously saved in the previous four years, in 1938 Herbert and Ilse Samuel bought used machinery and moved their company to the "Paterson Street Mill" (now a scrapyard) between the homonymous street and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in Blackburn (Lancashire), renaming it as "EMSA Works & Herbert Foot Appliance Ltd.", extending from solely selling to also producing EMSA products.