SPEEDY WORK

Evening Post, Volume 32, Issue 32, 6 August 1931, Page 22

SPEEDY WORK

SHEEP'S BACK TO SUIT

ENGLAND CREATES RECORD

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 25th Jane. Britain broke another world speed record at Leeds on Tuesday when a suit for Mr. J. H. Thomas to wear on his Canadian tour was made from Taw wool in 3 hours 22$ minutes. The suit itself was made in 38} minutes from the time the cloth was received a.t the tailor's. The story is told by the "Daily, Express" .correspondent in Yorkshire., Xt 8.50 a.m. the wool was worn by the sheep, and at twenty-six minutes past noon the completed jacket) was being tried on by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Alderman' A y Pickles; the trousers and waistcoat had been completed fifteen minutes earier.

The time included a fourteen-minute journey from Batley to Leeds. The breaking of the record followed a chalJengo thrown down by Sir Malcolm Campbell to woollen manufacturers in the West Riding 'to take the existing record of 6 hours 28 minutes from Anverica. —

Lady Campbell was among the scrutineers, others being the Lord Mayor of Bradford, the Deputy Lord Mayor, Alderman Kathleen Chambers Alderman Ben Turner, and the Mayor of Batley.' — - - . Five sheepshearers from Swaledale began work on ten sheep at Batley, and from then through seventeen different processes to the finished cloth the various people engaged worked at - top A waiting-motor-car rushed the cloth to Leeds, where.it was on the cutting table at-the tailor's'almost before th£ motor-car had stopped. Crowds of work girls gathered round and cheered tha cutters as the different parts were1 sent to tbe various workrooms for completion.

When the suit was made a man sprinted down an avenue between rows of work girls and threw the coat to a presser. It was pressed in less than two'minutes, and from there it went to the buttonholer, who completed the garment. ', - . "We expect to boat even this record to-morrow at Huddersfield," said a member of the'tailoring firm. "Here wo have to rush the suit from one department to another, but to-morrow we shall have all the machinery together as we require it."