LANCASHIRE INDUSTRY.
COTTON CLOTH PRODUCTION. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, August 13. Striking facts in regard to Lancashire's production of cotton cloth are revealed in statistics for 1937. The total output of piece goods made for sale exceeded 3,000,000 metres and the yardage of products of Lancashire looms for the year was sufficient to provide a belt of cloth, approximately 40 inches wide, which would go 80 times round the world.
In addition, the cloth made on commission would provide another belt not (luite so wide, but sufficient to encircle the earth once. Again, the production for the year was sufficient to provide every person on earth with two yards of cloih.
The gross value of the output was £84,500,000 and the cost of raw material for the year exceeded £59,000,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 190, 14 August 1939, Page 7
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