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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 8 January 1915, Page 3

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A PLEA FOR MOKE lUUTISH ENTER-. PIUS 10. Mr Clarence V. Davy. of New Plymouth, ivlio lms returned from England,, had a clmt with a New Zealand Times reporter concerning British lnajiufactur- 1 ers. Although lie is a staunch liriton, Mr Davy said that he was forced to admit after many years' experience that the Germans couid run rings around British business men. England could Imild Dreadnoughts, etc., lwt she could hardly produce a little glass tube, a toy, a tin tack, or any other i simple small article. The British manufacturer was altogether too conservative. Mr Davy said that lie had approached several of tile large glass manufacturers in Orcat Britain with the object of having made three small glass discs, and was advised by them "t'l go to (lei'many, where tliey can do anything with glass.'' In Knglami, tliey only made bottles. It appeared that their gmit grandfathers, grandfathers, and fathers made bottles, and they were doing the same. Apparently they did not want to expand their business; they would sooner the (iermalis had it than go to the trouble of installing machinery to turn out an article submitted to them, although it meant orders for hundreds of thousands of i;ross. This condition :i1 ••» existed in regard to hundred* of oth.T trades. ''Take it to (urnnany, tliey will 'make it for you,*' was tin* cry from the iirniri when any new departure was suggested. The (Irnnans, on (lie other hand, were as keen to do business as the English iirms were to turn it down. It was this keenness which had built up Herman trade, and Britain had been the "mainspring."