VAST FOBTUNE IN TIN PLATES
• The record prosperity of the "Welsh tin plate trade is a romance fcf industry, says the Daily Mail. To-day plates are changing hands at 64s per box, compared with 12a 6d per-wari The trade is unique in "that it is one of those industries that over .100 years ago was established by the Germans. A Welshman from Pontypool was at that time sent across the North Sea, and he returned with the secret of successfully tinning iron plates. From- crude beginnings, the Welsh industry, was built up-' at Pontypool Neath, Llanelly, and Swansea, until to-day the process of manufacture turns out a perfect steel plate coated with tin, which is the envy of German competitors. Many 6f the chief proprietors have risen through the works tj» industrial fame and fortune. The late Lord (Jlantawe started" life as a boy in the tinwprks. ; .J
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Wairarapa Age, 31 March 1920, Page 6
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148VAST FOBTUNE IN TIN PLATES Wairarapa Age, 31 March 1920, Page 6
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