THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK 
Enough to load 40,000 railway wagons | 
A thousand train-loads! And the Artificial 
Silk business is barely 12 years old. 
In 1924, only two Artificial Silk companies 
had their shares listed on the London Stock 
Exchange—Courtaulds and British Celanese. 
To-day there are a score of companies listed. 
They are springing up, not like mushrooms, 
as the pessimists say, but like young trees. 
In a few years there will be twice as many 
as there are to-day. The demand for the 
new cloths is insatiable. 
We have the dyes to make these new 
cloths in the most radiant colours. Our 
“ British Dyestuffs Corporation” has now 
escaped from Government control. The 
Government has sold its shares. 
This company is now managed by compe- 
tent men. At the head of it is Lord Ashfield 
_one of the ablest business-builders in the 
British Isles—the man who built up the 
transportation service of London. 
While under Government control, this com- 
pany lost £5,000,000, but it is now making 
money. It has made a working agreement 
with the German dyers. It is pledged to 
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