SILK INDUSTRY
TRANSFER TO BRITAIN LOSS TO FRENCH CENTRE LONDON, '4th April. Tlie trade dispute between Britain and France is expected to result in the transferring of important sections of the Lyons silk industry'to Britain, where French specialities are already manufactured under French overseers. A textile company at Leek, Staffordshire, hitherto engaged in cotton spinning, lias purchased many silk-spinning machines from France. Courtaulds, Limited, arc similarly experimenting, and six big firms in the Rhone Valley are opening in Britain oil their own behalf. The silk industry has been carried on at Lyons for 500 years, and the lack of experienced workers and suitable machinery made English competition with French imports impossible until tlie recant retaliatory duties were levied.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 April 1934, Page 8
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118SILK INDUSTRY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 April 1934, Page 8
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