DIAMOND TOOLS
BRITAIN'S LATEST INDUSTRY Another new and valuable industry has come to England with the Belgians. Antwerp used to send across the Channel instruments, by a patent process from diamonds, for making tungsten, carbide tool tips, optical glass and porcelain articles,; and these were important in the war effort too. A new development is the making of den", tal instruments almost entirely controlled by Germany up to the war. Just before the Nazis over-<rai« the Low Countries, the Antwerp factory was brought to England with its key men. These diamond craftsmen oi Belgium have settled down in complete friendliness with their English fellow workers, and the output of thei new factory has had to na multiplied many times. Much of the work, such as*' diamond sorting, crushing, grading and perfection, can be done by men partly incapacitated by war injuries. Preparations are now being made to develop the new factory's products for the United States, the Dominions, Grown Colonies and several neutral countries.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 157, 19 September 1941, Page 4
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