BILLIARDS CUE TIMBERS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25276, 30 August 1947, Page 8

BILLIARDS CUE TIMBERS

SUPPLY DIFFICULTIES IN BRITAIN Britain’s conservation of dollar, will affect industry in widely different ways. To an English visitor to Christchurch it means that he may have to turn from Canadian maple to English ash as raw material for his product. He is Mr F. G. Peradon. principal of Peradon and Company, Ltd., London, biggest manufacturers of billiards cues m the British Empire pie production of billiards cues involved constant grading of the timber after each stage of ktin drying and processing, said Mr Peradon. From !S2°. s<luares ot Canadian maple, about 600 first-class cues would be availablebut only about 350 would come from a similar stock of English ash The quality of maple was fairly dependable; but ash varied. Hard woods for cue butts could not now be obtained from India, Burma, or Australia and he had to rely on reserves of ebony which was used only on the best cues’ In 1938 his firm had produced 160.000 cues, said Mr Peradon. When the war ended he had been promised 100,000 squares of Canadian maple; but only 20,*000 arrived. The supply position would now probably become more difficult