Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
Illustrated from photographes, etc.
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the boxes are
removed to the
department in which
they are filled with
starch. For this
purpose one girl
weighs out the
proper quantity, an-
other fits it into the
box, a third checks
the weight of the
filled box, another
pastes the strip,
which is placed in
position by a col-
league. A similar
course is pursued
when starch is
packed in paper
parcels for laundries,
when it is packed
in wood boxes in bulk for export, and so
forth. The celerity which is attained by
long practice in the performance of simple
acts may be illustrated by the fact that
one girl is able to put together the bodies
of no less than 2,300 starch boxes every
day of the week.
The spectacle of a mustard and starch
factory, such as that of Messrs. J. and J.
FILLING STARCH BOXES.
BRITAIN AT WORK.
Colman Limited, of Norwich, with its
hundreds of separate acts, is impressive in the
extreme. This well-managed factory, which
was visited for the purpose of this article, re-
sembles a complex army, and the virtues of
precision and disciplined routine are of
paramount importance. In such an in-
dustry there is no room for the performance
of auxiliary duties at
home, and the opera-
tions are more com-
pletely centred in the
factory than in the
metal industries. It is
in such factories that
the amicable adjust-
ment of interests
between capital and
labour is of supreme
importance, and this is
why these branches of
manufacture afford to
the industrial world an
excellent example of
the supremacy attained
by Great Britain over
her rivals in other parts
of the universe.
E. G. Harmer.