Other factors which curtailed the opportunity for profits included many years of low sardine catches and wartime scarcities of other raw materials such as tinplate and oil.
First, there is the class of raw materials like fuel, oil, tinplate and prime essentials.
The conversion value, the total value of a tin of biscuits to the value of the amount of tinplate in that tin is twenty-one times.
In the hardware and hollow-ware group of industries, which includes stoves, grates, bedsteads, tinplate goods, etc.
Overshadowing all other problems—with regard to coal, building and industry generally—there is the cloud which has arisen in connection with the steel and tinplate trade.
Let me give some more to show in detail how this rather ridiculed export of tinplate is used to bring food here.
The steel employer sells the tin-plate bar by weight, and you have to work the tinplate bars out at a certain weight per foot.
He said that the increase in tinplate prices would increase the price of canned food by ½p per tin.
