Used Razor Blades. An unexpected use for old safety razor blades has been found in a rubber factory. It has a contract to supply rubber rings to packers of ration chocolates for troops abroad. The cutting knives wore out, and through an ingenious idea, a machine was adapted to use razor blades as the cutting medium. However, about 75 were required every day and new ones could not be obtained in that quantity. Through the good offices of commercial travellers thousands of used blades were quickly produced and these are now doing valuable work in the factory.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13670, 18 June 1942, Page 3
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