Notable examples are linens, woollens, and motor cars, where existing trade organisations or controls have been utilised as the central executive organisation.
But we are still by far the biggest textile exporters in the world—indeed nearly half the woollens and worsted goods are exported from this country.
I should like to know, for instance, how much research and development are going on in machinery for other textile industries, particularly woollens.
I have referred before with some pride to the export record of this region per head of population in terms of woollens and tweeds.
We make woollens and worsteds for export, and we also have our great engineering trades which send machinery to every part of the world.
In regard to woollens, the manufacturers of which have also been crying out for safeguarding, the imports amount to £15,000,000, and the exports to £48,500,000.
Of course, cloth is divided into woollens, silk, and cotton.
Then we come to matters like the problems of clothing: woollens, yarns, and things of that kind.
