I might mention as an illustration, motor vehicles, silk, artificial silk, carpets, lace, hosiery, iron and steel, pottery, glass, chemicals, and electrical engineering.
The following table shows the numbers of insured persons, in the hosiery industry and the shirts, collars, underclothing, etc.
They produce such diverse things as chemicals, aircraft parts, toys, perambulators, hosiery, and electric lamps.
Yarn required by hosiery manufacturers may now be purchased freely and without restriction except for nylon yarn, silk yarn and cashmere yarn.
Nevertheless, deliveries of nylon yarn to the hosiery industry are now 4½ times their level at the beginning of last year.
The following table shows the numbers of insured persons in the hosiery industry, and the shirts, collars, underclothing, etc.
However, as in cotton, the interests of the mills, who manufactured inputs, and the hosiery sector, who used the cheaper imported inputs, had by then diverged.
By 1830 it had a mechanized cotton-spinning industry, a substantial handloom-weaving sector, and a rapidly growing cotton hosiery industry.
