A Busy City
■♦ '■' " The following clipping, which deals with one city only, gives some idea of the vastness of British manufacturing interests —•' A statistician has calculated that a week's work in Birmingham # comprises among its various results the fabrication ; of 14,000,000 pens, 6000 bedsteads, 7000 guns, 300,000,0,00 cut .nails, 1,000,000 buttons, 1000 saddles, 5,000,000 copper or bronze coins, .20,000 spectacles, six tons of papiermache wares, over £30,000 worth of jewellery, 4000 miles of iron and steal wire, ten tons of pins, five fons of hairpins and hooks and eyes, 130,000 gross of screws tor woodwork. SUO tons of nuts, screw bolts, and spikes, 50 tons of wrought iron hinges, 350 miles' length of wax?! for vestas, 40 tons of refined metal ? 40 tons of German silver, 1,000 dozen ot fenders, 3,500 bellows, 800 toiii of brass and copper wares, to pay nothing of the myriad other articles, such as pianofortes, cylinder castings, perambulators, axles, wheels, sates, locks, etc."
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 32, 1 September 1892, Page 4
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158A Busy City Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 32, 1 September 1892, Page 4
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