Mouth Organs For N.Z. Produced In New Welsh Factory
Ten thousand mouth organs a week is the planned 'production of a new factory at Colwyn Bay, North Wales. This manufacture of mouth organs, or harmonicas, is an entirely new Welsh industry, .but it is one that promises to become very important. Work has only recently begun, but already 1200 instruments are made each week. mouth organ is popular all over the world, and this new firm has orders from New Zealand, Hong Kong, Portugal, Zanzibar, and Australia, and inquiries from India and Ecuador.
Main centres of the industry before the war were dennany and Czechoslovakia. One firm in Germany had 5000 workers and made five million harmonicas a year, which were sent all over the WQrli. One ef the leaders of this new Welsh industry was a refugee from ‘‘Czechoslovakia.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 19, 1 August 1949, Page 8
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140Mouth Organs For N.Z. Produced In New Welsh Factory Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 19, 1 August 1949, Page 8
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