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useful state ; a foreign company , we believe , but they have been surpassed by the Harefield manufacturers , either by an improved cheniical process , or by the power and superiority of their machinery and the long experienced j udgment and
care of their workmen , most of whom were born upon the premises . It is a common case , we were informed , to find sons , fathers , grandfathers , nephews , uncles , and cousins of all removes , employed within a few
yards of each other , and many of them upon the same piece of work . This relationship , and the mutual understanding resulting from it , must be productive , we should think , of
many advantages . Not only does the labour of various hands become more concentrated and united in purpose , but as there are " secrets in all trades , "
and particularly in the smelting and rolling of zinc , even so , the said secrets are more likely to be kept " in the family / ' At all events it would appear that
tpis latter advantage has accrued , since those who are conyersant with the subject , and pave tested the productions of (^ Efferent manufacturers , all assure us that none of them , at
home or abroad , are by any means etjual to those of the Harefield Company . This may account for the extensive character of their works and exports .
The use of plates of malleable zinc is now becoming very fe neral ; it seems , indeed , to e almost universally introduced in the jhodtem system of
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building . It is fast taking tjj £ place of copper in many in , ? stances , and of lead and tin , in many more , being so much cheaper and lighter than the two former . Thus : copper is
about 102 / . per ton ; sheet zinc about 25 L per ton . Lead is the same price as the zinc , but requires to be four times thicker when laid down , which of course makes it three-fourths
dearer . So great is consequently the demand , and so very few are the manufacturers who are competent to produce the material in a perfect state for durable use , that although the Mills at this place are at work
day and night , with double sets of men for the occasion , and thus produce on the average fifty tons of sheet zinc per week , they are quite unable tp satisfy the demand ; and no doubt Messrs Mosselman and
Devaux , the other great rival manufacturers , are much in the same predicament . But new mills , and arrangements for increased power ( which is derived entirely from water ) are making at Harefield ; then , we sup * - pose , the rival Company will do the same ; then other
Companies will start ; up ; then they will all under-sell each other ; then some of the new-comers will be bankrupts ; then the old ones will get stronger ;
then new-comers will again enter the field , and , being wiser from experience , become by degrees equally strong ; and then the zinc-craving public will at last be satisfied . We cannot find space to no-
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388 Harefield Gvpper WtrB .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/42/
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