Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-06
UNITED KINGDOM.
|SH0E|:. STATISTICS
Investigation Reported d
BY The hi Bureau Of 4.
:. Manufacturers
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune. @ r
WASHINGTON, May Elm q re-
port on the shoe and leather trade
in the United Kingdom the bureau OF
manufactures, department Of COM
merce and labor, states that the In
dustry in England is carried on chief
~ in the towns Of: Leicester, North
ampton, Kettering. London, Leeds,
Bristol, Stafford and Norwich. The
industry is gradually growing
throughout the country. An advance
of 10 to Is per cent has been made
during the. past five years and there
has also been an improvement in
the standard of finished product.
The statistics were taken from the
latest official census of production,
1907. The tables In, the report are
based on returns received from fac
tories and workshops engaged in the
manufacture and repair of footwear,
whether of leather, india rubber, can.
vas or other material. The returns
are substantially complete as regards
boot and shoe factories where power
is employed. They do not include
the output Of a large number of shops
where the occupier works alone,
workshops attached to retail shops,
and Independent repairing shops.
During 1907 there were -manufac.
tured In the United Kingdom 97.762,.
900 pairs of boots, shoes and slippers,
having a total value Of $97, al ,929;
the value of goods made in the bolt
and shoe and allied Industries. to.
gether with work done for the rtade,
aggregated Sill, 729,966; the cost OF
materials used was SCI, SIC, 283;; and
140,278 persons were employed in the
various industries. =.
Leicester the Center Of the Industry
Leicester, with something over 200
factories, large and small, is the prin.
cipal shoe manufacturing center In
Great Britain. .Leicester's product ID
almost entirely ladies and misses
boots and sheos, all classes and grades
Of which are manufactured. 1t ID
claimed that for the grade an equal
value cannot be, given by any other
manufacturing town in 1the world.
a statement possssibly open to ques'
ton, though undoubtedly true as re-
CARDS wearing qualities.
1t is estimated that fully $4,000
hands are employed in the industry
in leicester and district, while the
| value of the goods produced aggre
gates $20,000,000 to $22,000,000 annu'
ally.
The headquarters Of the shoe ma,
chinery trade OF the United Kingdom
are located in Leicester, while the
manufacture Of shoe poltshes, shoe
laces, shoe merceries, flndings) of oil
kinds, leather dressing and leather
goods, Is likewise extensive.
Other Shoe Manufacturing Districts
Northampton ranks second in i'm
portance as a seat of modern shoe
making and is the home for mems
superior, medium and high grade foot
wear. The best machine-made boots
and shoes manufactured in the Unit
ed Kingdom are turned out in the
factories of this place. In point Of
value of product it leads all other
centers, but Leicester stads first as
as regards quantity.
| In Bristol are manufactured chief
ly medium and cheaper goods of all
kinds, from heavy hobnailed boot
to turned slipper, or sowe round
the English term for turns.
The output for Leeds factories
comprises chiefly heavy nailed and
standard shoe work, also cheap stitch
downs. In Stafford is made a good
class of ladies' footwear in welted
tured, and McKay.sewn. In Norwich
turned shoes and slippers, with
"veldtschoen" (children's stitchdown
sandals), constitute the output.
Factory Buildings and equipment