MONEY IN PINS

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4809, 12 July 1939, Page 2

MONEY IN PINS

MANUFACTURER'S FORTUNE. MAKERS OF SMALL ARTICLES. The modern woman may not need so many pins as did her mother, but there is still money in the pin business, as shown in the will, reported in the Daily Mail, of Mr. T. W. D. Broughton, J.P., of Four Oaks, Warwickshire,. Mr. Broughton, who died in January aged 62 years, was a safety-pin manufacturer at Smethwick, near Birmingham. He left £30,026. He left annuities to his widow (£400), to his daughter Millicent

Hannah Kenney (£500), and to his sister, Hannah Frew (£3O), the residue to accumulate during- the life of his wife. Then further annuities will be paid to his daughter and his sister, the balance ultimately to his sister's children. About 5,000,000,000 pins are used every year in Great Britain. There is also money to be made out of other small things. A fortune of £70,000 was left a few years ago by Sir Walter Evans, of Birchfield, Birmingham, deputy-chairman of one of the largest firms of button manufacturers in the world.

And huge sums have been left by makers of shoe-laces, collar-studs, hooks-and-eyes, and hundreds of other little everyday necessities of life.