Britain Prints Billion Notes For China
Two British printers of bank notes are now carrying out contracts, given to them by the Government Central Bank of China, for printing 1,000,000,000 notes.
Neither the exact total nor the value of the notes can be divulged. Four hundred extra hands have been engaged to cope with one of the contracts, which will take a further year to complete; the other has already been completed.
The original plates are to be kept in Great Britain and the notes themselves will go to China by various routes. There are only but few bank note printers, other than Government factories, in the world, and other orders for Bank Notes are now being carried through in England for Costa Rica, Salvador, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Persia, Siam and Switzerland.
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1939, Page 6
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