FACTORY FOR “PEACE AND WAR”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22712, 26 October 1935, Page 25

FACTORY FOR “PEACE AND WAR”

Britain's newest factory is described a«' ! a “ peace and war ” plant. It will be the most modern factory in the world for manufacturing commercial chemical solvents. The factory is being equipped-, at Broinborough Port, Cheshire, and orders for plant and machinery worth £250,000 have already been placed ia Britain. Production begins on peace-time products in October, and work will be found for 300 men. Sugar molasses form the raw material for the products to be manufactured at the factory. Finished products will be used in producing lacquer for motor cars and furniture, artificial silk and other textiles, dyes, leather, rubber, perfume, soaps, paint, and wax.. “ Some of the chemical solvents,” statea an official of the private company owning the factory, “are indispensable to the manufacture of explosives and to the aircraft industry. The same plant and machinery, using the same raw materials, can therefore turn instantly to war-time ’ production in case of an emergency.” The. enterprise is being carried out by a company under the joint auspices of the Commercial Solvents Corporation of, America and the Barter Trading Cor- - poration, an English chemical group whose " chairman is Brigadier-general Sir WH-; liam Alexander. M.P. The plant is to -■ have its own laboratory and staff of rr search workers. ,