FOR THE ARMY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 13

FOR THE ARMY

£40,000 CUTLERY ORDER. (From Our Own 0->rresi-omhm‘ >. ; LONDON. July I. Firms ill Sheffield—Britain’s “steel city”—-have received orders from the War Office for C4O.PPO worth of knives. I forks, and spoons with which the new | militia army will eat its rations, j This is a very big individual order, j even for the Sheffield eut'ery industry. | and increases in the regular personnel i of all three services will have a further j effect in the domestic output of a citv | which has recently been predominantly | assoe'ct<'d in the minds of everyone as ; the birthplace of immense weapons of j wa r. j Meanwhile, returning confidence is . having its effect on world markets for I domestic articles. “The cutlery trade i will he busy from now until the end j ef the year with orders which are coming in as a result of the British Industries Fair.” a Shetiield market research expert said. “Supplies in many countries have been purchased from week to week, and stocks are running low. The countrv which is able to supply an immediate demand on the returning of more settled times is in a favourable position. Having realised this fact in advance. Sheffield manufacturers have already begun fo benefit from the practical steps they took to ensure that with the return of confidence, which is already apparent, they would he able instantly to supply the world’s demands.