DEMAND FOR PETROL LIGHTERS
ORDERS FOR BRITISH FIRMS British cigarette and pine smokers are using more matches because of the very large number of petrol lighters now being sent overseas to help pay for the war. Recent months have seen a phenomenal increase in the overseas demand for British lighters, both of the mechanical and the thumb-wheel types. Australian importers have asked for the entire output of one British manufacturer. But they had to be content with a share, for supnlies were going to Canada and Newfoundland. India, Burma and Ceylon, New : Zealand. South Africa, and Nyasaland. British West Africa. South America. Palestine. Egypt, Syria. Iraq, Aden. Malaya, and China, Portugal, and the colonies and Spain. . , . , , Only the other day a shipment of British-made lighters went into the Straits of Gibraltar lor the tobacconists of Tangier.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23379, 12 July 1941, Page 10
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