WALKING-STICK INDUSTRY
WAR DOUBLES' DEMAND.
LONDON, October 21
A dying industry has been revived. Once again men in England are carrying walking sticks. Factories in London have doubled their output since the outbreak of war.
It is not just the young subaltern’s demand for a smart leather-covered cane that has caused this swing-back, although these canes are being produced in hundreds.
It is the ordinary citizen’s return to walking now that petrol rationing has made him lay up his car. Also, men have found that it is helpful to carry a stick in the black-out, so that they can tap their way along the pavement like blind men. Many of these “black-out sticks” are painted white, and some have luminous strips, or torches fitted into their handles.
Twenty-five years ago a famous walking-stick firm in Clerkenwell, London, employed 800 workers. To-day their successors employ 18. Recently as a result of the walking-stick boom, they have had to refuse orders.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 November 1939, Page 5
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