TIN USED IN SILK STOCKINGS EVEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18044, 3 January 1927, Page 5

TIN USED IN SILK STOCKINGS EVEN.

(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, October G. The cost of hundreds of articles of everyday use will be raised by the present high price of tin, which, within five years of falling to £l2O per tun, j was £317 5s per ton yesterday. \ Even silk stockings, frocks, or suits, i together with many other articles in • which no one suspects that tin is present, contain this so-called “base” metal, which is now selling at about 3s a pound. j Mr G. T. Broadbridge, who is chairman of seven tin companies, said to a i “ Daily Mail ” reporter yesterday; j “ Wireless is another new industry making demands on this ancient metal, j and you will find tin in the earphone, j the loud speaksr, the set itself, and on the copper wires. • “ Used with lead it becomes a coating for iron sheets. Solder may contain from 25 to 60 per cent. tin. On thin sheets of mild steel, laid thinly, it becomes tinplate, and used for kettles, canisters, and other receptacles • it is wrongly called tin. “ As pure tin it is made into pharmaceutical apparatus. Beaten flat and thin it provides a “ silver” backing for i morrors, or, of another kind, for wrap- ! ping up chocolates and other comnioj dities. 'I “It is extensively employed in solution form in the weighting of silk and artificial silk. Numerous compounds of tin are used in dyeing and in calico printing, similar compounds being used in the enamel and potter)- industries. | “ The demand for tin was now so i great that it was causing a world i shortage.”