RESULT OF A WEEK'S WORK IN BIRMINGHAM.
A week's work in Birmingham comprises, among its various results, the fabrication of 14.000,000 pens, 6000 bedsteads, 7000 guns, 300,000,000 cut nails, 100,000,000 buttons, 1000 saddles, 5,000,000 copper or bronze coins, 20,000 pairs of spectacles, six lons of papier mache wares, over £30,000 of jewellery, 4000 miles of iron and steel wire, tea toDS of pins, five tons of hair pins and hooks and eyes, 130,000 gross of wood screws, 500 tons nuts and screw bolts and spikes, 50 tons wrought-iron hinges, 350 miles length of wax for vesta?, 4'> tons of refined metal, 40 tons German silver, 1000 dozen of fenders, 3500 bellows, 800 tons of brass and copper wares.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 595, 16 May 1876, Page 3
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118RESULT OF A WEEK'S WORK IN BIRMINGHAM. Globe, Volume V, Issue 595, 16 May 1876, Page 3
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