"CUT-THROAT" RAZORS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 59, 29 May 1942, Page 2

"CUT-THROAT" RAZORS

ARE HAVING A WAR-TIME BOOM A boom in "cut-throat" razors is one interesting side line in the growing contribution which is being made by Sheffield cutlers to the war effort. Apart from t'he curious fact that this fang-handled type of razor normallj r maintains a considerable vogue among Naval men, safety, razor blades are from time to time today in short supply in Britain because the cutlers are allowed to produce only 25 per cent of their usual output for home use. Many civilians are there-fere taking to the longhandled razor, and the result is that the handful of firm's who make it are now very busy indeed. In pence time I lie saying ran that Sheffield shaved the British Army and to-day the call for safety razor blades «sr of course colossal. As fast as- the factories get their allocation of steel strip, the stamping machine's, mo.vtiy worked; by girls, turn, it in it/ blades by the thousand. In addition to meeting very considerable calls for equipment from works and colliery canteens, feeding centres and A.R.P. depots, Sheffield is producing an immense range of other cutlery for the Forces at home and in the Dominions. It includes table, knives, cooks' knives, scissors for use in hospitals: and at ballooi-. barrage depots, as well as spoons and forks although, strictly speaking, these do not come within the < category of cutlery.