BRITAIN’S BABY INDUSTRY
SPITFIRE PARTS MADE FROM POWDER. Shell nose caps are being made in plastics. Great Britain’s biggest baby industry is today devoting 75 per cent of its plant, brains, and energy to turning cut plastics for the fighting forces. Out of a plain powder made from phenol and formaldehyde, giant presses mould in hard-steel dies a vast range of war material—infantry equipment, small ship components, the controls and wing' sections of the Spitfire fighters. Lightness, strength and fire resistance are qualities which make plastics particularly useful in aeroplane work. Despite these demands, the British plastics industry last year shipped abroad no less than £150,000 of its moulding powders. It did it by rationalising itself into a single economic unit for export trade and raw material distribution. Australia has been the biggest buyer. The main markets have been within the Empire, but South America is steadily increasing her demands, particularly for articles made from plastics such as crockery, door fitments and similar domestic accessories.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 2
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165BRITAIN’S BABY INDUSTRY Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 2
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