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The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1916. BRITISH MANUFACTURES.

'With the object of assisting British manufacturers to manufacture ami place on the market goods lormerly made, in Germany the Hoard ot i I'ade is exhibiting in 11;* various industrial centres of England samples of Gorman goods winch have boon collected final Til! over the world by Ins Majesty's Trade Commissioners and others. The whole collection covers practically every trade, and the munheJ of samples amounts to over seven thousand different articles. Advices by the late English mails state that tiio exhibition has recently . created considerable interest in the Sheffield district, where it has just been held prior to going to other centres. One of the most interesting features was that a number of linns made special arrangements for parties of workmen to see the goods. This is regarded as a most important departure, tor it is essential to show the actual producer the nature of the goods which compete with his own product, the class ot work put into them, and the price at which they can he sold. The workmen, it is said, showed a remarkably intelligent and critical interest in the samples, many of them making copious notes on the quality, prices, and measurements of the goods, and m some cases taking full scale drawings «1 items of special interest , ine mei -j once is that the working men ol Great Britain, as well as the manufacturers, are determined to take a new view o> foreign competition, and to mime serious attempt to gn'PPl« " llh u - 1!u ’ interest so taken is all the more remarkable because m Sheffield horn masters and workmen are very prom; of the high standard of craltsmanship, associated with the name of then citv throughout the world, and one ol | the difficulties which has had to he fac-i : ~( t vhe post by iiiaiiuiactm ers m : competing with some German products 1 has been the fact that workmen have I n ,fused to work on low-grade material, land, indeed, have refused to believe that Ko«>ds of the and pr*c shown, have made at all. 1 heie is strong evidence that these exhibitions will do a great deal of good, fn i Sheffield it was found that a number | o f linos shown, both medium and low goods, are being made, or will he made, in more normri times, at competitive prices. A numher of fi.-ms iml i- ' mated that they had commenced the *

manufacture of goods pt c\ iouslj 1 x ported from Germany and Aus lin, ]iad made provision for an, increased output of goods winch were already competing with Cleiman and Austrian goods. Among the goods being made in the Sheliieid district to replace cmmiv products may be mentioned cheap matches, mother-of-pearl and celluloid buttons, cigarette holders, cte cheap saws, lead seal-pliers, oTamophone needles, tool sets, and a wide variety of other articles. If the manufacturers and workman do their pari it is for British salesmen and the having public to do theirs by refusal to rake German-made goods. |

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 61, 16 June 1916, Page 4

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The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1916. BRITISH MANUFACTURES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 61, 16 June 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1916. BRITISH MANUFACTURES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 61, 16 June 1916, Page 4

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