AN ALL-BRITISH TYPEWRITER
A new company has been formed with a capital of ,£51)0,000 for the mass production at Hunslet, Leeds, of nn allBritish typewriter. No issue is to be made to the public, the capital having been secured. The organiser behind the enterprise is Major J. P. Bate, late of the Worcestershire Regiment, who received the JI.C. and bar, D.S.O. and bar. and Italian War Glow for wr.r services. Everything about the firm will be British except the steel of the factory, which i 6 being .supplied and erected by an American company, whose tender was lower and guaranteed delivery quicker Mian those of British firms. The entire factory will be of steel, and ■will have tho most modern equipment. With the brick and stone office building fronting it, tho constructional cost will be approximately iMO.OOO. Major Bate said recently: "A start will be made with the home market directly the works are complete in the New Year, and then wc shall extend our operations overseas."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 9
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167AN ALL-BRITISH TYPEWRITER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 9
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