GLASS TRADE REVIVAL.
COMBINE WITH A CAPITAL OF £1.000;000. ' ' LONDON, April ''el—An'- intimatior reached ' Dudley and the South Stafford shire district that a. further combine ii the glass trade is being-* formed. The district was the Mecca of glass-making 50 years .ago^i and a.great.,;part of tlu world was supplied with glass -manufactured here. There are indications now that the industry will he. revived 1 . II is stated that five.' midland and twt north country firm's are to 'amalgamate; with a capital, approximately, of 'a million pounds. Efforts are to be directed to mass production of table glassware, j Three or four combines have»been form ! od, since the introduction into this court' I try of American machinery for glass making, with the object of; retaining th< glass trade captured from Germany and j Austria, since the war. It was this Oon- , tinental competition, that practically de I stroyed the Weßt Midland glass manu- ! factui'e.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15229, 29 May 1920, Page 9
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153GLASS TRADE REVIVAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15229, 29 May 1920, Page 9
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