1500 CAMERAS A DAY.
IMPOSITION OF A TARIFF. BENEFITS BRITISH WORKERS. Some idea of the way a tariff can operate to benefit British Industry and British work-people was revealed to visitors lo the annual Kodak international salon of photography at Harrow, stales the Burton Evening Gazette. A duty of tliree-threc and a third per cent is imposed on all cameras imported into England, a fact- which has meant ihal instead of England being flooded with cameras from America and the Continent, the Kodak Company’ has built at Harrow a factory, keeping 20OH British men and women tn regular employment. The factory has a daily output of 1500 cameras, 400.000 a year being sold in Great Britain alone. Besides lhe instrumenls themselves, over 200 different varieties of .photographic papers arc made in the factory, which is equipped with a developing and printing building, and which is also Hie largest of its kind in Europe.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17975, 21 March 1930, Page 3
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1531500 CAMERAS A DAY. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17975, 21 March 1930, Page 3
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