HORSE COMES BACK
BLACKSMITHS IN DEMAND.
LONDON, October 28.
Harness-makers and blacksmiths are doing record business in Britain as a result of the “come-back” of the horse. More and more firms are laying up their motor-vans and bringing the horse back on to the road. Farmers are needing more horses to plough the extra 2,000,000 acres the Government requires. A member of Rawle and Son, Ltd., well-known London harness-makers said this week “Dairies and bakers and private people who have invested in horses and traps to take them to the station are giving us more work than we can manage.
“We are working 60 men now, twice our normal number. We have had to send out of the country for some of them, for they have to be experienced craftsmen. Inquiries are coming in from all over England for secondhand harnesses.”
Blacksmiths are also feeling the benefit of the boom —that is, the few men styling themselves such who still shoe horses. One London horseshoeing blacksmith is so busy that he is opening another shop next week.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 November 1939, Page 8
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