The story of artificial silk

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Identifikator:: 1765923751

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-146069

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Casson, Herbert Newton http://d-nb.info/gnd/118814435

Title:: The story of artificial silk

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Efficiency Magazine

Year of publication:: [1928]

Scope:: xiii S., S. 17 - 130

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The vast possibilities of the artificial silk trade

Collection:: Economics Books

THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK The full noon-day of its prosperity is yet to come. Sir Edwin Stockton, who may well be said to speak for Manchester, says: “I certainly believe that the prospects of the British Artificial Silk industry are of the very brightest, and I suggest that we have so far merely touched the fringe of its potential future development. “ Manufacturers, producers and designers,” he says, “are now offered enormous scope for their imaginative minds. Who can dare to say what the result will he ? Roger W. Babson, the American financial expert, says: ‘‘ My advice is to watch these so-called cellulose industries. Nobody knows exactly what cellulose is, but that does not stop us from making and using it. The beauty of 1t is that cellulose can be made chemically from almost anv old thing.” Mr. Ben W. Veysey, the head of John Dyers, of Southsea, says: ‘‘ Artificial Silk has come to stay. The good and reliable yarns are rapidly taking ascendancy over the poor-quality stuff, which for a time threatened to bring the whole industry into disrepute. 124

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