This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...was of the value of 241,109, with the price 27-48s. per cvvt, and cast our glance through the intervening years down to 1895, when our export amounted to 756,704, the price being 2078s. per cwt, there is not a single year in which there was any near approach to our last year's trade. The course of our soap trade during ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...was of the value of 241,109, with the price 27-48s. per cvvt, and cast our glance through the intervening years down to 1895, when our export amounted to 756,704, the price being 2078s. per cwt, there is not a single year in which there was any near approach to our last year's trade. The course of our soap trade during the last ten years can be seen from the following Table, compiled by a writer in the Daily Graphic, September 14th: --Our author then takes up the "Lesser Trades," which he defines as those which are on a lower level than the gigantic industries hitherto dealt with. Toys come first. Figures are given as to our imports from foreign countries in 1895. The total value was 991,647, of which Germany, which will include Holland, sent us 796,727 worth. "You may search the Board of Trade export returns in vain for any mention of any export of British toys anywhere." Our author then descants at length on the inferiority of these to foreign ones, contrasting the roughness and lack of finish of English toys with the realism and finish of the foreign article, winding up by asking why the English toyman should not avail himself of the advantage which cost of carriage gives him over the foreign imports, this cost averaging from 8 to 12J per cent. All this may be very true, and serves to point out a department of industry which we might cultivate with profit. Glass comes next under review. After some disparaging remarks concerning English medicine-bottle manufacture as compared with German, our author gives figures to show how our exports of glassware have declined. "In 1889 we sent forth common bottles to the tune of 464,742, in 1895 to the tune of 323,814. As far back as 1873 we exported plate glass to...
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