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 competent
 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 company
 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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