DIAMOND TOOLS
BRITAIN’S LATEST INDUSTRY. IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS. Another now and valuable industry lias come to England with the Belgians. Antwerp used to send across the Channel instruments, prepared by a patent process from crushed diamonds, for making tungsten carbide tool tips, optical glass and porcelain articles; and these were important in the war effort too. A new development is the making of dental instruments almost entirely controlled by Germany up to the war. Just before the Nazis over-ran the Low Countries, the Antwerp factory was brought to England with its key men. These diamond craftsmen of Belgium have settled down in complete friendliness with their English fellow workers, and the output of tho new factory has had to be multiplied many times. Much of the work, such as diamond sorting, crushing, grading and perfection can be done by men partly incapacitated by war injuries. Preparations are now being made to develop the new factory’s products for the United States, the Dominions, Crown colonies and several neutral countries.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 7
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167DIAMOND TOOLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 7
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