BRITISH-MADE DOLLS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 298, 28 September 1938, Page 8

BRITISH-MADE DOLLS.

HUGE SUMS SPENT* ANNUALLY. Alore than a million .pounds change bauds every year in Britain because children like playing with dolls. in spite of the falling birth-rate, there is a bigger demand than ever for dolls, partly because the only child is not content with one. Unlike her mother, she wants a big family. Rrobably the most popular type this year will he replicas of the dolls which were presented to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose by French children to commemorate the Royal visit to Paris. Already the biggest toy factory in the world is making thousands of replicas. ’The factory, which covers fifty acres, j belongs to Messrs Lines Bros.. Ltd.,! who went into doll production for thej first time last month. They are turning out 2001) a day, and soon hope to j be making 10.0(H) a day. Air Walter Lines, one of the princi-j pals, said : “Germany used to do the biggest trade with England in good dolls, and tin'll tbe United States. .Japanese dolls are mostly cheap cel-j luloid ones,” Tile British doll industry went ahead u lien a. tarilf was put on German and .Japanese products. You can pay from (id to L‘lo lor a British-made doll. Then* are 24 different parts to each | doll, rep resell ting IS trades. for more than 160 years Ham lev Bros.. Ltd., ol Regent Street, have been making wax dolls. Ton years ago the naturalised Italian who made them by hand died, and these hand-made wax dolls are now unprocurable.