LANCASHIRE LOOMS
PRODUCTION FOR THE YEAR EIGHTY TIMES ROUND WORLD (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Aug. 12. (Received Aug. 13, at 7 p.m.) Striking facts with regard to Lancashire's production of cotton cloth are revealed in the statistics for 1937. The total output of piecegoods made for sale exceeded 3,000,000 metres. The yardage of the products of Lancashire looms for the year was sufficient to provide a belt of cloth approximately 40 inches wide and 80 times round the world, and in addition the cloth made on commission would provide another belt not quite so wide but sufficient to encircle the earth once again. The production for the year was sufficient to provide every person on the earth with two yards of cloth. The gross value of the output was £84,500,000 and the cost of the raw material for the year exceeded £59,000,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23886, 14 August 1939, Page 9
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