WORLD GIRDLE
OF COTTON. LANCASHIRE COULD MAKE 80 RINGS ROUND THE EQUATOR. MANCHESTER, August 11. Lancashire’s production of cotton cloth, is now so extensive that it would stretch eight times the distance between the earth and the moon, according to the latest figures which have just been published. The total output of piece-goods made for sale during 1937 was 3,376,175,000 linear yards, the equivalent of slightly over 3,000,000,000 metres. The figures are only now available because there is necessarily a time lag before the total production from all sources can be worked out. They are difficult to appreciate, but it may be stated that the yardage of the products of Lancashire looms for the year was sufficient to provide a belt lof cloth approximately 40 inches in width which would extend 80 times , round the world. I These figures refer to goods made by the cloth manufacturers for sale.
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Grey River Argus, 5 September 1939, Page 9
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