Performance is average to good amongst all the British creams, there are no real bad ones... Trumper and T&H have maybe slightly superior performance and require a little less product but apart from that it's all down to scents.
T&H smell like a department store perfume counter (1805=Issey, Apsley=TdH, Freshman=GIT etc.)
Trumpers are more classic Edwardian English scent... Rose, lime, sandalwood... Perhaps a little to "stiff upper lip" for some but high quality and genuine.
D.R. Harris although they are an old company have only been selling mens shaving products for a couple of decades, some scents are copycats like Windsor=TdH and some are original... Usually popular with the more mature gentlemen but personally I find them all very dull.
Taylors are a budget brand and a definite step down in perfume quality compared to the above, these are working mans products... That doesnt make them bad just expect relatively synthetic scents and it's quite common for their creams to cause some skin irritation.
Cyril Salter, another budget option... This one is not a "classic" company but they dont claim to be so that's fine. Especially good slickness from these creams but the scents for me are the worst, cheap, nasty, offensive trash... The Americans love them
Castle Forbes I am yet to use, by all accounts it is very good stuff but the "brand image" does not interest me.