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Calcutta in
the 1940s was one of India's foremost industrial centres. The rapid growth of industry had attracted
people from all over India and the rest of the world. Thus working in industry was one of the main situations where
different nationalities met. The war
was a major factor in the growth of industry as Calcutta became a major
armaments manufacturing centre to re-supply the China India Burma front.
This war boom
brought with it many opportunities but the stresses of that, as well as the
strained political situation outside the factory gates, led to many tense
situations. Strikes, sabotage, violence
and sometimes murder where becoming frequent and often lasting features in
Calcutta’s industrial life.
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Dear Sir,
We are praying God for your longevity as we know, that you are the only man to fight for God; Who is supporting this whole world and you the next man, while you have the power to be ???? if you please
The fact is this, we are serving in an European Firm (for a
period over five years now). between
Will you kindly Pass a Law, for God’s sake on Merchants’ workshops (&Printing): “no Reduction, of either worker or his salary; those who fill up our 5 years service (such war allowance 10% have to pay) as long as the Firm will be open.
We fell in emergency case if you please take pity on you children.
We are in heart-felt situation
Dear Sir ,
Your humbly obedient Children
We are poor workers.
Date
4-5-40
Sibpur (
(source: personal scrapbook kept by Malcolm Moncrieff Stuart O.B.E., I.C.S.
seen on 20-Dec-2005 / Reproduced by courtesy of Mrs. Malcolm
Moncrieff Stuart)
Although India is predominantly an agricultural
country, she ranks at the International Labour Office at Geneva as one of the
eight largest industrial countries of the world.
Indian industries are classified in two
divisions: (1) Cottage industries and (2) Large-scale industries, carried on in
workshops and factories.
Indian export exceeds her imports, and India's
foreign trade is carried on mostly by sea.
Five articles - such as jute, tea, cotton, skin
and rice - from more than half of the total exports of the country. About 75
percent of the imports consist of manufactured goods and half the imports come
from Great Britain. Cotton dominates both imports and exports.
(source: “A Guide Book to Calcutta, Agra, Delhi,
Karachi and Bombay” The American Red Cross and the China-Burma-India-Command.
[1943]: at:
http://cbi-theater-2.home.comcast.net/redcross/red-cross-india.html#INDIA)
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COMMERCE AND TRADE: The great jute industry of
Bengal, the tea industry of Assam, the coal and mica industries of Bengal and
Bihar, the wheat traffic of the United Provinces and generally the agricultural
areas tapped by the main lines of the East Indian and Bengal Nagpur and the
Eastern Bengal Railways and by numerous waterways connecting the Gangetic delta
with the interior of Bengal and Assam all converge on Calcutta. Through
Calcutta passes roughly one-half of the total sea-borne traffic of India.
(source: “A Guide Book to Calcutta, Agra, Delhi,
Karachi and Bombay” The American Red Cross and the China-Burma-India-Command.
[1943]: at:
http://cbi-theater-2.home.comcast.net/redcross/red-cross-india.html#INDIA)
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Who is
he, that somewhat dirty, ill-clothed fellow, that sweating fellow, who hauls
you to your destination in a rickshaw, the amazing individual who lugs a load
of you-name-it-he'll-carry-it in a basket on his head, the one who struggles
through the over-crowded streets with a heavily loaded bamboo push cart? In the
majority of case that laboring man is a Bihari immigrant to Bengal. Sometimes
he comes from Orissa or United Provinces. It is only rarely that you will see a
Bengali so employed. The work is hard and of a drudging nature, and the pay is
poor; these men eke out an existence from day to day.
(source: “The Calcutta Key” Services of Supply
Base Section Two Division, Information and education Branch, United States Army
Forces in India - Burma, 1945: at:
http://cbi-theater-12.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-12/calcuttakey/calcutta_key.html)
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Bengal Industries Association—15
Clive Street. Phone, Cal, 1422.
Alcock, W. J., & Co. Consulting
Engineers for chemical and allied trades—7 Hastings Street- Phone, Cal. 2052.
Allen Berry & Co., Ltd.
Automobile Engineers, oxy-acetylene and electric welders and motor car
importers—Works, 62 Hazra Road. Phone, P.K. 1800. Showrooms, 24B Park Street.
Phone, P.K. 2100.
Aluminium Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers of aluminium utensils, etc.—4 Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal. 2375.
Arathoon, A, M., Ltd.—Manufacturer
and Exporter of shellac and button lac—11 Stephen House, Dalhousie Square.
Phone, Cal. 5905.
Associated Electrical Industries (India)
Ltd. Engineers and Contractors for electric power and plant of all
description—6 Mission Row. Phone, Cal. 6974.
Associated Instrument Manufacturers (India)
Ltd. Manufacturers of scientific instruments and apparatus—B5 Clive
Buildings. Phone, Cal. 3304.
Avery, W. & T., Ltd.
Manufacturers of weighing machines—28/2 Waterloo Street. Phone, Cal.
1731.
Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd. Parent
water-tube boilers, superheaters, mechanical stokers, etc.—4 Bankshall Street.
Phone, Cal. 3633.
Baldwin Locomotive Works, The,
Locomotive Builders and Railway Engineers—5 Dalhousie Square. Phone, Cal. 657.
Bathgate & Co—Pharmaceutical
and Manufacturing Chemists—17, 18 & 19 Old Court House Street. Phone, Cal.
434.
Bellis & Morcom, Ltd.
Manufacturers of heavy oil engines, steam turbines, etc.—A3 Clive Buildings,
Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 3950.
Bell's Asbestos and Engineering
(India) Ltd. Asbestos packing and jointing. —A3 Clive Buildings, Clive
Street. Phone, Cal. 3443.
Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works,
Ltd. Manufacturers of chemical, pharmaceutical and toilet preparations—94
Chittaranjan Avenue. Phone. B.B.4101.
Bengal Potteries. Ltd.
Manufacturers of porcelain and stoneware—45 Tangra Road. Phone, Cal.
2970.
Billington, W, & Co., Ltd.
Engineers and Contractors ; Specialists in Railway Materials—Stephen House,
Dalhousie Sqre. Phe., Cal. 4248.
Birkmyre Brothers. Manufacturers
and Agents for hair and leather belting—8 Clive Row. Phone, Cal. 4430.
Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd.
Manufacturing Chemists—Mercantile Buildings, 10 Lall Bazar Street. Phone, Cal.
2635.
Braithwaite & Co. (India) Ltd.
Structural Engineers—Hide Road, Kidderpore. Phone, South 1112.
Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop
Construction Co., Ltd.—Mercantile Buildings, Lall Bazar. Phone, Cal.
1484.
Briggs, R. V., & Co., Ltd.
Analytical, Consulting and Technical Chemists—3 & 4 Garstin Place. Phone.
Cal. 2204.
Britannia Biscuit Co., Ltd. Biscuit
Manufacturers—5/1A &. 5/1B Mangoe Lane. Phone, Cal, 5760.
British Insulated Cables, Ltd,
Engineers, Cable Manufacturers and Contractors—9 Hare Street. Phone, Cal. 4000.
Burn & Co., Ltd. Engineers and
Agents ; potteries, ironworks and waggon builders—12 Mission Row. Phone, Cal.
6030.
Butto Kristo Paul & Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers and Agents for chemical and pharmaceutical preparations—1
&. 3 Bonfield Lane. Phone, Cal. 4510.
Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd.—Phone,
Cal. 6200. P. 24.
Callender's Cable & Construction
Co., Ltd. Engineers, Cable Manufacturers and Contractors —7 Pollock
Street. Phone, Cal. 1825.
Caltex (India) Ltd. Manufacturers of motor oils—21 Central
Avenue. Phone, Cal. 1968.
Carreras (India) Ltd. Cigarette and
Tobacco Manufacturers and Agents—Factory, Circular Garden Reach Road. Phone,
South 202. Office, 21 Old Court House Street. Phone, Cal. 2369.
Crossley Brothers, Ltd.
Manufacturers of Crossley Gas and Oil Engines—4 Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal.
5500.
Daniel Adamson & Co., Ltd.
Engineers and Manufacturers of boilers, steam superheaters and turbo
compressors—8 Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 3471.
Davite Company, The. Belting and
belt dressings—29 Waterloo— Street. Phone, Cal. 1927.
Dunlop Rubber Co. (India) Ltd.
Manufacturers of motor tyres, tubes and accessories—57B Free School Street.
Phone, Cal. 411.
English Electric Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers and Agents for electrical machinery and apparatus —8 Clive
Street. Phone, Cal. 3922.
Elias, B. N. & Co., Ltd.
Bone Mill Proprietors and Agents for The National Tobacco Co., Ltd., etc—Norton
Buildings. Phone, Cal. 668.
Ford Motor Co. of India, Ltd.
Automobile Engineers—2 Justice Chandra Madhab Road. Phone, P.K. 1102.
Frank Ross & Co., Ltd.
Manufacturing Chemists and Dealers Inphotographic goods—15(7 Chowringhee
Road. Phone, Cal. 1199.
French Motor Car Co., Ltd. Automobile
Engineers—234/3 LowerCircular Road. Phone, P.K. 300.
General Electric Co. (India) Ltd.—Electrical
Engineers and Contractors : Agents for
electrical goods and appliances—Magnet House, Central Avenue. Phone, Cal. 4613.
Gestetner, D (India) Ltd. Manufacturers
of Gestetner's Rotary Cyclostyle Machines—32 Grosvenor House, Old Court
House Street. Phone, Cal. 380.
Glenfield & Kennedy, Ltd.
Hydraulic Engineers: Manufacturers of water supply fittings— Fairlie House, 4
Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal. 1300.
Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co.,
Ltd. Manufacturers of steel safes and furniture—102 Clive Street.
Phone, Cal. 1407.
Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. (India) Ltd.
Manufactures of motor tyres, tubes and accessories—60 Chowringhee Road. Phe.,
P,K. 800.
Gramophone Co., Ltd. Manufacturers
of "His Master's Voice" Gramophones, Records and Radios—33 Jessore
Road, Dum Dum. Phone, Regent 800.
Great Indian Motor Works, Ltd.
Automobile Engineers— 12 Government Place East. Phone, Cal. 74-
Greaves Cotton & Co. Ltd.
Electrical, Mechanical and Textile Engineers—4 Mission Row. Phone, Cal. 692.
Guest, Keen, Willlams, Ltd. Railway
Engineers and Hardware Manufacturers—7 Council House Street. Phone, Cal. 3790.
Heatly & Gresham, Ltd.
Merchants, Engineers and Railway Specialists—6 Waterloo Street. Phone.
Cal. 4724.
Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., W. T.
Engineers and Contractors : Manufacturers of electric wires and cables—Henley
House, Old Court House Corner. Phone, Cal. 1346.
Hooghly Docking & Engineering Co.. Ltd.
Engineers and Shipbuilders—6 Howrah Road. Sulkea. Phone, Howrah 1.
Hoyle. Robson, Barnett & Co, (India) Ltd.
Paint Manufacturers. Agents of Silvertown Lubricants (India) Ltd.—26 Middle
Road, Entally. Phone, Cal. 5610.
Indian Cable Co., Ltd. Manufacturers
of all classes of rubber insulated cables and wires—9 Hare Street. Phone, Cal.
1000.
Indian Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.—12
Mission Row. Phone, Cal. 6030.
Jardine, Menzies & Co.
Architects, Consulting Engineers, Surveyors and Builders-2 & 3 Clive Row.
Phone, Cal. 1937.
Jenson & Nicholson (India) Ltd.
Paint, Colour and Varnish Manufacturers—2 Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal. 5100.
Jessop & Co., Ltd. Structural, Mechanical and Electrical
Engineers—93 Clive Street. Phone. Cal. 4900.
John King & Co., Ltd. Engineers,
Shipbuilders, Founders and General Contractors—Victoria Engine Works, Howrah.
Phone, Howrah, 26.
Jones,Ivan, Ltd. Merchants and
Manufacturers Agents—8 Dalhousie Square. Phone, Cal. 1029. Workshops and
Factory, 206 Lower Circular Road. Phone. P.K. 390.
Jost't Engineering Co., Ltd.
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and Contractors —9B Mercantile Buildings,
Lall Bazar. Phe., Cal. 4402.
Mackenzie, G. & Co. (1919) Ltd,
Automobile Engineers—208 Lower Circular Road. Phone, P.K. 1264.
Mackintosh, Burn, Ltd. Architects,
Surveyors, Builders, Contractors, Sanitary Engineers and Ironfounders—D2 Clive
Buildings. Phone, Cal. 6666.
Manton & Co. Gun, Rifle and
Revolver Manufacturers and General Sports Goods Dealers—13 Old Court House
Street. Phone, Cal. 1903.
Marshall Sons & Co. (India) Ltd.
Manufacturers of steam engines, boilers, tractors and tea-garden machinery—99
Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 2236.
Martin & Co. Merchants and
Building Contractors. Agents for Railways, Tea and Engineering Companies—12
Mission Row. Phone, Cal, 6020.
Metal Box Co. of India, Ltd. Tin
Printers, and Tin Box Manufacturers—B2 Hide Road, Kidderpore. Phone,
South 1344.
Minimax. Ltd. Manufacturers of Fire Extinguishers—12 Lall
Bazar Street. Phone, Cal. 1650.
Norton, J. B., & Sons, Ltd.
Sanitary Engineers—Norton Buildings, 1 &. 2 Old Court House Corner. Phone,
Cal. 512.
Oriental Gas Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers of gas, coke, sulphate of ammonia. Works. 14 Canal West
Road. Phone, B.B. 3001; Office, 12/A Park Street. Phone, Cal. 4200.
Osler. F. & C., Ltd. Electrical
Engineers and Contractors—12 Old Court House Street. Phone, Cal. 478.
Philips Electrical Co. (India)
Ltd. Manufacturers of electrical metal filament, lamps, fittings, radio
products. X-ray material- Philips House, 2 Heysham Road. Phone, P.K. 1107.
Saxby & Farmer (India) Ltd.
Railway Signal Engineers and Contractors—17
Convent Road, Entally. Phone, Cal. 171.
Scott & Saxby, Ltd. Tube
Well and Water Supply Engineers—19 British Indian Street. Phone, Cal. 1340.
Shalimar Paint, Colour & Varnish Co., Ltd.—6
Lyons Range. Phone, Cal. 5122.
Siemens (India) Ltd. Manufacturers
of electrical goods—26 Central Avenue. Phons.Cal.4891.
Singer Sewing Machine Co. Manufacturers of Singer Sewing achines and
accessories— E2 Clive Buildings, Clive St. Phe., Cal. 1957.
Smith, Stanistreet &Co., Ltd.
Manufacturing Chemists—Dispensary, 5 Dalhousie Square. Phone, Cal. 3618 ,
Factory, 18 Convent Road, Entally, Phone, Cal. 3617.
Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd.
Manufactururs of telephone systems and cables, and radio transmitting and
receiving equipment:—4 Esplanade East. Phone, Cal. 1255.
Standard- Vacuum Oil Co.
Manufacturers and Importers of petrol, lubricating oils, etc.—6 Church
Lane. Phone, Cal. 6460.
Steuart & Co., Ltd. Automobile
Engineers—57 Park Street. Phone, Cal. 4575.
Stewarts and Lloyds of India, Ltd.
Manufacturers and Stockists of wrought iron, steel tubes and fittings—Victoria
House, Chowringhee Square. Phone. Cal. 6180. Workshops, Hide Road, Kidderpore.
Phone. South 569.
Tata Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.—102
Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 5512.
Tata Sons, Ltd.—102 Clive Street.
Phone, Cal. 4477.
Thomson, T. E., & Co., Ltd.
Founders, Hardware and Metal Merchants—9 Esplanade East. Phone, Cal.
102.
Wakefield, C. C., & Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers and Importers of lubricating oils and lubricators—7 Royal
Exchange Place. Phe., Cal. 986.
Walford Transport, Ltd,
Automobile Engineers and Transport Agents—71;73 Park Street. Phone, P. K. 1620;
Service Station and Stores, 117-119 Park Street. Phone, P.K. 492.
Storage; Hide Road, Kidderpore. Phone, South 559.
Petrol
Depot and Breakdown Lorry; 46/1A Chowringhee. Phone, P.K. 1120.
William Jack & Co. Engineers
and Importers of pneumatic tools caterpillar tractors, etc-—10 Clive
Street. Phone, Cal. 981.
Worthington-Simpson, Ltd. Civil and Mechanical Engineers: Pumping
Machinery Manufacturers—10 Clive Street. Phe., Cal. 458.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non commercial
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1940)
As the Japanese squeeze India through Burma and
the Andaman Islands, they grasp at the biggest remaining segment of Britain's
Empire. They close on United Nations routes to China, Russia and the Middle
East. But, aside from India's strategic values, India also has an industrial
area which is well worth grabbing for itself.
Indian ironmasters in the Fourth Century knew how
to work bigger masses of iron than any European foundry could handle 1,500
years later (Europe and the U.S. caught up in the 19th Century). Now, at the
great Tata works in Jamshedpur, 135 miles inland from Calcutta, the inheritors
of that tradition produce most of India's steel (1,250,000 tons per year—about
1½% of U.S. production). They make armor plate, steel bars for guns, shells,
other munitions. At last reports, 600,000 complete shells and 150,000,000
rounds of small-arms ammunition had gone out from Indian plants to British war
zones. Also near Calcutta are many of India's textile mills, its richest coal
and iron deposits.
Southward, in the State of Mysore, is another
great industrial concentration, where Indian workmen produce iron & steel,
even a few airplanes (trainers and Curtiss Hawk fighters). Now the British wish
that more of India's industries were on the west coast, fewer on and near the
Bay of Bengal's vulnerable shoreline. India's industrial prizes, in the
Calcutta area, lie at the end of the shortest sea and air route from Burma.
To the south is Ceylon, only 50 miles from the
Indian mainland, across a string of partially submerged sandspits called
"Adam's Bridge." Once in Ceylon, holding its naval base at
Trincomalee and the great commercial port of Colombo, the Japs need not cross
Adam's Bridge. For they would then have the Bay of Bengal. If they dominate its
routes to Calcutta and Madras, the Japs will be very near to having India.
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(source: Glenn S. Hensley: Jute market, B020, Jute market somewhere in Calcutta seen at University of Chicago Hensley Photo Library at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/hensley as well as a series of E-Mail interviews with Glenn Hensley between 12th June 2001 and 28th August 2001)
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced by permission of Glenn Hensley and under a Creative Commons license)
(source: Glenn S. Hensley: Jute market, B021, Jute market somewhere in Calcutta seen at University of Chicago Hensley Photo Library at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/hensley as well as a series of E-Mail interviews with Glenn Hensley between 12th June 2001 and 28th August 2001)
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced by permission of Glenn Hensley and under a Creative Commons license)
(source: personal scrapbook kept by Malcolm Moncrieff Stuart O.B.E., I.C.S.
seen on 20-Dec-2005 / Reproduced by courtesy of Mrs. Malcolm
Moncrieff Stuart)
Bengal Jute Dealers' Association—4 Commercial
Buildings. Phone, Cal. 2523.
Calcutta Baled Jute Association and Calcutta
Baled Jute Shippers' Association — Clive Street. Phone, Cal, 475.
Indian Jute Mills' Association—Royal
Exchange Buildings. Phone, Cal. 475.
Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd. Managing
Agents for Jute Mills, Tea Estates, Coal Companies, Insurance
Companies, Steamer Companies, etc.—8 Clive Row. Phone, Cal. 5280.
Barry & Co. —Agents for
Gourepore Paint Co., Tea Estates, etc.—2 Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal.
5100.
Bess Dunlop & Co., Ltd. Merchants
and Managing Agents for Tea Estates, Sugar Companies, Jure and Textile Mills—2
Hare Street, Phone, Cal. 4335.
Bird & Co. Merchants and
Managing Agents for Jute Mills, Collieries, Indian Patent Stone : Labour
Contractors, etc—Chartered Bank Building, Royal Exchange Place. Phone, Cal.
6040.
Birla Brotherts Ltd. Managing
Agents for Jute, Cotton, Sugar and Rice Mills, etc. —3 Royal Exchange Place.
Phone. Cal. 562.
Daulatram Rawatmull. Agents for
Jute and Sugar Mills—178 Harrison Road. Phone, B.B. 4501.
Duncan Brothers & Co., Ltd.
Managing Agents for Jure Mills, Tea Companies, etc—101 Clive Street. Phone,
Cal. 5411.
Finlay, James, & Co.. Ltd.
Agents for Jute, Tea, Railway and Sugar Companies—1 Clive Street. Phone,
Cal. 4600.
Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co.
Merchants, Bankers and Importers : Managing Agents for Jute Mills, Tea Estates.
Collieries, Railways, Insurance, Timber, Building and Engineering Companies,
etc.—Clive Buildings, 8 Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 6666.
Harrisons & Crosfield, Ltd.
Merchants and Agents for Steamship and Tea Companies, etc.—6 Church Lane.
Phone, Cal. 6220.
Henderson, George, & Co.. Ltd.
Agents for Insurance, Jute and Tea Companies—101/1 Clive Street. Phone, Cal.
4733.
Jardine, Skinner & Co.
Merchants and Agents fot Jute Mills, Tea Estates; Coal, Insurance, Steamship
Companies, etc.—1 Clive Row. Phone. Cal. 6990.
Kettlewell Bullen & Co., Ltd.
Merchants; Agents for Tea and Insurance
Companies, Cotton and Jute Mills, etc.—21 Strand Road. Phone, Cal. 4901.
Kedarnath Ramnath & Co.
Merchants and Proprietors, Shiva Jute Press -130 Mechuabazar Street. Phone,
B.B. 3850.
Keymer Bagshawe & Co., Ltd.
Engineers; Agents for Jute and Textile
Companies, Coates Bros', printing inks, etc.—4 Lyons Range. Phone, Cal. 530.
Landale & Clark. Ltd. jute
Merchants and Brokers: Fire and Marine Assessors and Salvage Contractors —11
Clive St. Phe., Cal. 5820.
McLeod & Co.. Ltd. Merchants
and Agents for Tea, Jute. Railway, Engineering and Insurance Companies—McLeod
House, 28 Dalhousie Square West, Phone, Cal- 4926-
Macneill & Co. Merchants and
Agents for ]ute Mills, Rope and Coal Companies. Tea Estates and Garden
Reach Workshops, Ltd.— 2 Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal. 6100.
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.
Merchants and Agents for Gunny Jute Presses, etc.—100 Clive Street.
Phone, Cal, 5000.
Ralli Brothers. Ltd. Jute and Gunny
and Seed Merchants, etc.— 16 Hare Street. Phone, Cal. 5420.
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1940)
[…]
A less obvious bet, already paying cushy
dividends, is burlap, imported from
Calcutta, where a monsoon run on the warehouses
is going on. One use for burlap is
binding the springs of auto seats—it removes the
squeak. Last week one auto parts
supplier was "in" more cash as profit on
burlap inventory warehoused well before the war,
than it hopes to make from its seat division all
year. Another company standing to clean
up on a raw material shortage is […]
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[…]
Cotton goods prices paralleled raw cotton prices
(up an average of a yard); when cotton is rising, textile fabricators like to
buy for future use in hope of inventory profits. Last week's cotton buying was
paralleled by a rush to buy cotton grey goods: sales, 100,000,000 yards, up
80,000,000. This piling up of inventories is a gamble that retail sales will boom
before production declines under inventory pressure.
But there was an additional reason for textile
activity: England, needing burlap for sandbags, has virtually cleaned out the
Calcutta market since the outbreak of war with orders so far totaling 1,000,000,000
bags. The price of raw material for burlap is up from £18 ($84.24) a ton in
August to £88 (about $344.96). Supplies for the U. S. are limited, not likely
to last long. Textile companies are selling low-grade, rough cottons to replace
burlap sacks.
[…]
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There is apt to be very little more jute (or
burlap, which is made from jute) for the U.S., and no abaca (Manila hemp).
Those facts may sound esoteric to the layman, but they have the U.S.
Government—and all who know about jute and hemp—in a frenzy.
Burlap is the "wrapping paper of the
wholesale trade." The U.S., even in normal times, consumes more than
500,000,000 lb. of burlap a year. Bulk foods—grains, raw sugar, coffee, salt,
livestock feeds—are bagged in burlap; so are cotton, wool, fertilizers, chemicals,
countless industrial products. In wartime it is also needed for sandbags and
camouflage fabrics. As raw jute, or as manufactured burlap, 99% of it
originates in India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges
Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute
can be grown has labor been persuaded to process it, for jute must soak in
stagnant water, must be hand-worked by natives who wade waist-deep in the
stinking mess.
The Jap—from Rangoon, which he already holds,
from western Burma, toward which he is driving—threatens the two great jute
ports. Calcutta and Chittagong. Chittagong, on the eastern rim of India's
coast, has already been partly evacuated. Even without that immediate threat,
the shipping shortage itself has cut into jute supplies. Ships from India must
carry even more vital products, such as manganese (three-fifths of the world's
production is in India and the U.S.S.R., and Russia is now even more remote
than India) and mica (essential for electric insulation, 80% of it comes from
India). Every war since the Crimean has created a boom in jute, but this is the
first time the Western Hemisphere faced jutelessness.
Since Pearl Harbor, the U.S. has made herculean
efforts to conserve burlap, to get in as much more as its thin line of groaning
ships can bring. By Government order, two-thirds of all burlap is earmarked for
military needs, the other third for essential farm needs. Non-essential users,
like carpet and furniture makers, have been denied any burlap at all. Yet U.S.
warehouse stocks are now less than a third of consumption in a good year;
Calcutta stocks (if the U.S. can get them) are about the same.
Abacá—90% of it from the Philippines (a lot of it
from around Davao, one of the first towns the Japs took)—looks like the banana
plant (see cut, p. 63) and belongs to the same family. Bananas may grease the
ways for a Victory ship launching, but abacá makes the rope for the world's
navies. There has been little abacá since Manila fell, and there will be little
if any more till Manila is retaken.
For other cordage, the Hemisphere has a wealth of
fibers. Chief commercial ones are sisal and henequen, which grow more or less
prolifically in Yucatan, Cuba, Haiti, other parts of Latin America. Exotic
fibers—caroa, guaxima, papoula de Sao Francisco from Brazil, cabuya from
Ecuador, pita and fique from Colombia—might replace jute and hemp if they could
be produced and processed in sufficient quantity (which would involve new
machinery, labor, transportation).
But henequen, sisal, and every other known
western fiber but sansevieria, which grows wild in Cuba, lack the resistance to
salt water that makes abacá a naval necessity. Moreover, while it takes only
four months to get a usable hemp crop, it takes three years to produce sisal,
five to seven years for henequen. And low world prices for jute and abacá have
kept Hemisphere acreage low.
What's To Be Done? Best substitute for burlap is
that lately over-produced U.S. staple—cotton. Since late January, the U.S.
Government has been salting away a stockpile of osnaburgs (heavy cotton) by
draining off one-third of all production. Hoped for, and far from achieved,
total: 200,000,000 yards (one-fifth of normal burlap consumption).
Last fortnight, bag makers got A-2 priorities on
cotton bagging but, with all the other demands on cotton mills, the rating so
far has turned out to be about as good as Confederate money. Up to now,
burlap-starved farmers have got by somehow with emergency allocations, used-bag
collections, etc. With mounting cries from bag-starved Lend-Leasers and Good
Neighbors, best hope is that such makeshifts—together with stepped-up
production of Latin American substitutes—will continue to keep the hand and the
mouth connected.
If worst comes to worst, paper wrapping, or
wood-packed shipments in bulk, can still substitute for a lot of burlap. But
last week, hemp was in such a parlous state that the agricultural fantasy of
the century was being seriously pushed in Washington. Commodity Credit Corp. hoped
to obtain 240,000,000 lb. of home-grown hemp, 14 times the U.S.'s peak
production in World War I. CCC has barely taken its first baby step in the
program: persuading U.S. farmers to plant 35,000 acres of hemp for 350,000
bushels of seed. To achieve that goal, the seed for the seed must be in the
ground within three weeks.
If and when CCC gets the seed, it must then lure
more U.S. farmers to sow it across some 300,000 acres next year, teach them how
to grow and harvest it. (But CCC knows of only ten people in all the U.S. who
are fully versed in the sensitive art of harvesting hemp: cut too early, the
fiber is weak, cut too late, it is damaged.) Thereafter, materials must somehow
be found to build 100 processing plants near the new hemp fields, men must be
trained to staff them.
If that program sounds impossible, CCC can point
out that having no rope for the U.S. Navy (which normally scorns U.S. hemp) is
still more unthinkable.
Because it thinks Congress will eventually
swallow most of Treasury Secretary Morgenthau's newest tax proposals, giant
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. has jumped the gun, is already
whacking off Federal income taxes at so high a rate that, while January &
February sales rose sharply, net profits were shown as only $2,498,000 (78¢ a
common share) against $3,572,000 a year ago ($1.33 a share).
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with Time Magazine)
The
burlap shortage, which had U.S. bag-users hot & bothered months ago, was no
longer a worry last week. Reason:
cotton-and paper-bag production had zoomed fast enough to plug the entire gap. Cotton bags are just as good
as burlap; the only catch is that they cost
10-25% more (17¢ for a cotton potato bag v. 15¢ for burlap).
The
burlap scare started when Jap warships swooped into the Bay of Bengal,
threatened to cut supply lines to
India—source of 99% of world jute, from which burlap is made. With U.S. burlap stockpiles down to a bare three
months' supply, something had to be done. It
was. In March, WPB rated cotton-bagging at A2, only one notch below
military cotton cloth. Month later
Washington went a step further, forced all heavy-goods cotton mills to put 20-40% of their looms on cotton-bagging.
Results
are startling. Bemis Bro. Bag Co., No. 1 U.S. bagmaker, last week reported
that, while burlap-bag output was down
80%, cotton-and paper-bag production was up 50%. This switch was cheap: a few ingenious adjustments immediately
converted burlap-bag machines to
cotton; paper-bag facilities were enlarged and slapped on longer schedules.
Meantime Lend-Lease and military bag
orders piled in. Thus, instead of starving on the jute shortage, Bemis Bro.—and most other U.S.
bagmakers—are serving the war effort by the
highest production ever.
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commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with Time Magazine)
There should be a burlap boom. The U.S. is
critically short of burlap, and Calcutta warehouses are bulging with it. Yet
ships in the last month have been returning from India with unused cargo space.
Reason: Indian exporters have jacked their prices up 15% in the last six
months, but OPA maintains a tight price ceiling on burlap in the U.S. (at the
dock, it now costs $15 per bale above the ceiling).
The same squeeze play occurred in the last war,
but that time Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch pulled a shrewd
counter-squeeze. After he persuaded the U.S. Treasury to stop shipping silver
(to bolster India's currency), burlap prices came down in a hurry. Burlap
importers—and their bagless customers—wish they had another Baruch.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non
commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with Time Magazine)
During my whole sojourn in India, I went inside the
mill only once when it was working. My
first reaction was to quickly rush through and out the opposite door, but some
inner voice told me not to hurry.
Amidst the haze of heat and dust I saw women in damp grey saris, wisps
of jute sticking to their hair, poor worn faces clammy with sweat, yet smiling
to me in a friendly manner. Men were
standing at their looms and the Sahibs walking up and down, with shirts
clinging to their bodies, gave me a cheerful wave as I went by as if they were
strolling about in some park on a pleasant day. To me, the deafening roar of the machinery, unbearable heat, the
pervading smell of jute all conspired to create a special hell - a hell I took
great care never to enter again.
(source:page 114 of Eugenie Fraser: “A home by the Hooghly. A jute
Wallahs Wife” .Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing 1989)
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non
commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with
Eugenie Fraser)
I was in the habit of walking to the office to
meet Ron when the mill closed down for the day. On one such occasion I was dismayed
to see a mass of workers crowded around Ron and hearing them calling out
‘Marro-Marro,’ (Beat Him –Beat him). To the right could be seen the members of
the European staff making their way to their quarters. Behind them was the young Kerani, Douglas
Cunningham, who turned and came back to ask if he cold be of some assistance –
a brave action indeed. I heard Ron
talking above the threatening shouts, but just as I was preparing to run across
to the railway on order to reach the station and phone the police, the crowd
suddenly began to disperse. Ron’s ability to speak freely in Hindustani stood
him in good stead. “You are brave now, threatening to beat me up,” he told them
“ but you forget the days before the partition when I escorted you to your bustees
at night like a lot of children and walked back alone.” It worked. The crowd
melted away.
(source:pages 180-181 of Eugenie Fraser: “A home by the Hooghly. A
jute Wallahs Wife” .Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing 1989)
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non
commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with
Eugenie Fraser)
Young men continued to come out, followed by
their wives and children. New married
quarters, modern and air conditioned, had been built to accommodate them. Far greater benefits than in our time, were
now enjoyed by the staff. Passages for
all men, women and children were paid for by the company.
(source:page 188 of Eugenie Fraser: “A home by the Hooghly. A jute
Wallahs Wife” .Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing 1989)
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commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with
Eugenie Fraser)
That was at the height of the depression and there
wasn't any work, so you just had to go where you could find it.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non
commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with
Trevor Royle 1989)
The Indians looked up to the white management, of
course, but there was no question of bitterness between them at all. They were
treated well and they were welllooked after. I found no resentment at all. None
whatsoever.
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commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with
Trevor Royle 1989)
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Baldwin Locomotive Works, The,
Locomotive Builders and Railway Engineers—5 Dalhousie Square. Phone, Cal. 657.
Bellis & Morcom, Ltd.
Manufacturers of heavy oil engines, steam turbines, etc.—A3 Clive Buildings,
Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 3950.
Burn & Co., Ltd. Engineers
and Agents ; potteries, ironworks and waggon builders—12 Mission Row. Phone,
Cal. 6030.
Crossley Brothers, Ltd.
Manufacturers of Crossley Gas and Oil Engines—4 Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal.
5500.
Daniel Adamson & Co., Ltd.
Engineers and Manufacturers of boilers, steam superheaters and turbo
compressors—8 Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 3471.
Hooghly Docking & Engineering
Co.. Ltd. Engineers and Shipbuilders—6 Howrah Road. Sulkea. Phone, Howrah 1.
Indian Iron & Steel Co.,
Ltd.—12 Mission Row. Phone, Cal. 6030.
Jessop & Co., Ltd. Structural, Mechanical and Electrical
Engineers—93 Clive Street. Phone. Cal. 4900.
John King & Co., Ltd.
Engineers, Shipbuilders, Founders and General Contractors—Victoria Engine
Works, Howrah. Phone, Howrah, 26.
Marshall Sons & Co. (India)
Ltd. Manufacturers of steam engines, boilers, tractors and tea-garden
machinery—99 Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 2236.
Metal Box Co. of India, Ltd. Tin
Printers, and Tin Box Manufacturers—B2 Hide Road, Kidderpore. Phone, South
1344.
Stewarts and Lloyds of India,
Ltd. Manufacturers and Stockists of wrought iron, steel tubes and
fittings—Victoria House, Chowringhee Square. Phone. Cal. 6180. Workshops, Hide
Road, Kidderpore. Phone. South 569.
Tata Iron & Steel Co.,
Ltd.—102 Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 5512.
Thomson, T. E., & Co., Ltd.
Founders, Hardware and Metal Merchants—9 Esplanade East. Phone, Cal. 102.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non commercial
educational research project. The copyright remains with John Barry
1940)
AMONG FOUR BRITISH EMPLOYEES
of a Calcutta engineering works murdered on
Saturday by members of the Indian Revolutionary Communist Party, was Frederick
Gower Turnbull (28), of Middlesbrough.
The bodies of Turnbull, and Arthur Dwyer (37), of
Halifax, (earlier reported of Middlesbrough), and Frederick Charles Brennan, an
Anglo-Indian, were recovered from two pressure furnaces.
Altogether four British or Anglo-Indian employees
were killed by terrorists in Saturday night's raid on the works of Jessop and
Company.
The fourth man, Felix Augier (42), died in
hospital from stab wounds.
Matthew Ewing, a British foreman at Jessops, was
struck on the head. He was rescued by loyal workers, who dragged him to safety
over a wall.
There has been considerable labour unrest at the
works, due to a reduction of over 150 workers recently.
The raiders' savage tactics suggest that they
aimed to stiffen malcontents in opposition to the Indian Government's gradually
succeeding efforts to break the general strike threat.
Indian and Pakistani police are combing the
country to round up stray batches of raiders.
Some escaped by boat and others in cars and
lorries. Fifteen rifles and several hand grenades were captured by the
police....
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commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with the
: Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)
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Calcutta Tea Traders' Association—2 Clive St.
Phone, Cal. 475.
Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd.
Managing Agents for Jute Mills, Tea Estates, Coal Companies,
Insurance Companies, Steamer Companies, etc.—8 Clive Row. Phone, Cal. 5280.
Bess Dunlop & Co., Ltd.
Merchants and Managing Agents for Tea Estates, Sugar Companies, Jure and
Textile Mills—2 Hare Street, Phone, Cal. 4335.
Brooke Bond India, Ltd. Wholesale
Tea Merchants, Blenders and Packers—2 Metcalfe Street. Phone, Cal. 3810.
Davenport & Co., Ltd. Merchants
and Managing Agents for Tea Companies—6 Church Lane. Phone, Cal. 6220.
Duncan Brothers & Co., Ltd.
Managing Agents for Jure Mills, Tea Companies, etc—101 Clive Street. Phone,
Cal. 5411.
Finlay, James, & Co.. Ltd.
Agents for Jute, Tea, Railway and Sugar Companies—1 Clive Street. Phone,
Cal. 4600.
Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co. Merchants,
Bankers and Importers : Managing Agents for Jute Mills, Tea Estates.
Collieries, Railways, Insurance, Timber, Building and Engineering Companies,
etc.—Clive Buildings, 8 Clive Street. Phone, Cal. 6666.
Harrisons & Crosfield, Ltd.
Merchants and Agents for Steamship and Tea Companies, etc.—6 Church Lane.
Phone, Cal. 6220.
Henderson, George, & Co.. Ltd.
Agents for Insurance, Jute and Tea Companies—101/1 Clive Street. Phone, Cal.
4733.
Jardine, Skinner & Co.
Merchants and Agents fot Jute Mills, Tea Estates; Coal, Insurance, Steamship
Companies, etc.—1 Clive Row. Phone. Cal. 6990.
Kettlewell Bullen & Co., Ltd.
Merchants; Agents for Tea and Insurance
Companies, Cotton and Jute Mills, etc.—21 Strand Road. Phone, Cal. 4901.
Lipton, Ltd. Wholesale Tea and
General Merchants—5 Council House Street. Phone, Cal. 5026.
Lyall Marshall & Co. Merchants
and Agents for Carew &. Co. (Gin Manufacturers), Tea Estates, etc.—4
Fairlie Place. Phe., Cal. 168.
McLeod & Co.. Ltd. Merchants
and Agents for Tea, Jute. Railway, Engineering and Insurance Companies—McLeod
House, 28 Dalhousie Square West, Phone, Cal- 4926-
Macneill & Co. Merchants and
Agents for ]ute Mills, Rope and Coal Companies. Tea Estates and Garden
Reach Workshops, Ltd.— 2 Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal. 6100.
Octavius Steel & Co. Ltd.
Merchants and Agents for Tea Estates, Sugar and Coal Companies—14 Old Court
House St, Phe., Cal. 146.
Planters Stores & Agency Co., Ltd. Agents for Tea Gardens,
Colliery and Mill Scores -11 Clive Street. Phone,
Cal. 5808.
Shaw Wallace & Co. Merchants
and Agents for Tea and Insurance Companies, Flour and Cotton Mills, Collieries,
The Atlas Fertilizer Works and The Tinplate Co. of India, Ltd.— Wallace House,
4/5 Bankshall Street. Phone. Cal. 5300.
Williamson, Magor & Co. Agents
for Venesta, Ltd., Union Oil Co., Tea Companies, etc.—4 Mangoe Lane-
Phone, Cal. 5208.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non commercial
educational research project. The copyright remains with John Barry
1940)
Reg worked for a Col. Easton who ran a printing
press for tea auctioneers. They printed all the lists for the auctions as well
as sports and accounts and other in house things. He was apprenticed to learn
the printing trade but his first love had always been the air force. His older
brother Derek had been his hero and Reg and wanted to follow in his footsteps
but he failed his maths and so was not accepted.
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(source: Glenn S. Hensley: Construction workers, B030, "Construction workers along Strand Bank Road, Calcutta" seen at University of Chicago Hensley Photo Library at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/hensley as well as a series of E-Mail interviews with Glenn Hensley between 12th June 2001 and 28th August 2001)
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced by permission of Glenn Hensley and under a Creative Commons license)
Braithwaite & Co. (India) Ltd.
Structural Engineers—Hide Road, Kidderpore. Phone, South 1112.
Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop
Construction Co., Ltd.—Mercantile Buildings, Lall Bazar. Phone, Cal.
1484.
Jardine, Menzies & Co.
Architects, Consulting Engineers, Surveyors and Builders-2 & 3 Clive Row.
Phone, Cal. 1937.
Mackintosh, Burn, Ltd. Architects,
Surveyors, Builders, Contractors, Sanitary Engineers and Ironfounders—D2 Clive
Buildings. Phone, Cal. 6666.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non commercial
educational research project. The copyright remains with John Barry
1940)
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Baldwin Locomotive Works, The,
Locomotive Builders and Railway Engineers—5 Dalhousie Square. Phone, Cal. 657.
Billington, W, & Co., Ltd.
Engineers and Contractors ; Specialists in Railway Materials—Stephen House,
Dalhousie Sqre. Phe., Cal. 4248.
Guest, Keen, Willlams, Ltd. Railway
Engineers and Hardware Manufacturers—7 Council House Street. Phone, Cal. 3790.
Heatly & Gresham, Ltd.
Merchants, Engineers and Railway Specialists—6 Waterloo Street. Phone.
Cal. 4724.
Saxby & Farmer (India) Ltd.
Railway Signal Engineers and Contractors—17
Convent Road, Entally. Phone, Cal. 171.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non commercial
educational research project. The copyright remains with John Barry
1940)
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Allen Berry & Co., Ltd.
Automobile Engineers, oxy-acetylene and electric welders and motor car
importers—Works, 62 Hazra Road. Phone, P.K. 1800. Showrooms, 24B Park Street.
Phone, P.K. 2100.
Dunlop Rubber Co. (India) Ltd.
Manufacturers of motor tyres, tubes and accessories—57B Free School Street.
Phone, Cal. 411.
Ford Motor Co. of India, Ltd.
Automobile Engineers—2 Justice Chandra Madhab Road. Phone, P.K. 1102.
French Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Automobile Engineers—234/3 LowerCircular Road. Phone, P.K. 300.
Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. (India) Ltd.
Manufactures of motor tyres, tubes and accessories—60 Chowringhee Road. Phe.,
P,K. 800.
Great Indian Motor Works, Ltd.
Automobile Engineers— 12 Government Place East. Phone, Cal. 74-
Mackenzie, G. & Co. (1919) Ltd,
Automobile Engineers—208 Lower Circular Road. Phone, P.K. 1264.
Walford Transport, Ltd,
Automobile Engineers and Transport Agents—71;73 Park Street. Phone, P. K. 1620;
Service Station and Stores, 117-119 Park Street. Phone, P.K. 492.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non commercial
educational research project. The copyright remains with John Barry
1940)
He has been closely watched while in Calcutta and
I have had him up for official examination. He appears to have lose his head
completely at the prospect of going to Europe and had developed a kind of hero
worship for Dr. S. Shortly after he came down here the German consulate secured
a job for him in a German motor firm, so that he has now lost his job and is
looking for work elsewhere- If you like, I will send him straight back to
Sikkim, but having once tasted life in Calcutta where he was earning Rs 70 per
month as salary, I very much doubt that he will stay with you ...
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non
commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with
Christopher Hale)
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Alcock, W. J., & Co. Consulting
Engineers for chemical and allied trades—7 Hastings Street- Phone, Cal. 2052.
Bathgate & Co—Pharmaceutical
and Manufacturing Chemists—17, 18 & 19 Old Court House Street. Phone, Cal.
434.
Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works,
Ltd. Manufacturers of chemical, pharmaceutical and toilet preparations—94
Chittaranjan Avenue. Phone. B.B.4101.
Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd.
Manufacturing Chemists—Mercantile Buildings, 10 Lall Bazar Street. Phone, Cal.
2635.
Briggs, R. V., & Co., Ltd.
Analytical, Consulting and Technical Chemists—3 & 4 Garstin Place. Phone.
Cal. 2204.
Butto Kristo Paul & Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers and Agents for chemical and pharmaceutical preparations—1
&. 3 Bonfield Lane. Phone, Cal. 4510.
Frank Ross & Co., Ltd.
Manufacturing Chemists and Dealers Inphotographic goods—15(7 Chowringhee
Road. Phone, Cal. 1199.
Hoyle. Robson, Barnett & Co, (India) Ltd.
Paint Manufacturers. Agents of Silvertown Lubricants (India) Ltd.—26 Middle
Road, Entally. Phone, Cal. 5610.
Jenson & Nicholson (India) Ltd.
Paint, Colour and Varnish Manufacturers—2 Fairlie Place. Phone, Cal. 5100.
Oriental Gas Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers of gas, coke, sulphate of ammonia. Works. 14 Canal West
Road. Phone, B.B. 3001; Office, 12/A Park Street. Phone, Cal. 4200.
Shalimar Paint, Colour & Varnish Co., Ltd.—6
Lyons Range. Phone, Cal. 5122.
Smith, Stanistreet &Co., Ltd. Manufacturing
Chemists—Dispensary, 5 Dalhousie Square. Phone, Cal. 3618 , Factory, 18 Convent
Road, Entally, Phone, Cal. 3617.
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1940)
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IN addition to her fighting forces, India
is making other large contributions to the cause of the United Nations. Her
factories are producing small arms, fuses, hand grenades, land mines and shell
cases. She is manufacturing millions of pieces of military clothing, boots,
tents, parachutes and tropical helmets. So it is fair to say that whatever
political difficulties exist internally, India is backing the United Nations
war effort to the best of her ability. One thing to remember.
(source: “A Pocket Guide to India” Special
Service Division, Army Service Forces, United States Army. War and Navy
Departments Washington D.C [early 1940s]:
at: http://cbi-theater-2.home.comcast.net/booklet/guide-to-india.html)
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educational research project. The copyright remains with the original
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Behind is Victoria House, the handsome and
imposing building of the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, surmounted by a
dome on which is a globe that becomes an illuminated beacon during the early
hours of the night.
The Calcutta Electric Supply was founded in 1897
and commenced supplying electricity in April, 1899. For the first few years
Messrs. Kilburn & Co., were the Managing Agents, but in 1903 the Company
opened their own offices in Calcutta, first in Dalhousie Square and later in
Old Post Office Street, where the management of the Company was conducted until
1931, when new and larger accommodation became necessary as a result of rapid
expansion of the Company's business. Victoria House was designed and
constructed by Messrs. Sudlow, Bailardie and Thompson, Architects, at an
approximate total cost of Rs. 20,00,000/-.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair
dealing' terms as part of a non commercial educational research project. The
copyright remains with John Barry 1940)
Associated Electrical Industries (India)
Ltd. Engineers and Contractors for electric power and plant of all
description—6 Mission Row. Phone, Cal. 6974.
Associated Instrument Manufacturers (India)
Ltd. Manufacturers of scientific instruments and apparatus—B5 Clive
Buildings. Phone, Cal. 3304.
Avery, W. & T., Ltd.
Manufacturers of weighing machines—28/2 Waterloo Street. Phone, Cal.
1731.
British Insulated Cables, Ltd,
Engineers, Cable Manufacturers and Contractors—9 Hare Street. Phone, Cal. 4000.
Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd.—Phone,
Cal. 6200. P. 24.
Callender's Cable & Construction
Co., Ltd. Engineers, Cable Manufacturers and Contractors —7 Pollock
Street. Phone, Cal. 1825.
English Electric Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers and Agents for electrical machinery and apparatus —8 Clive
Street. Phone, Cal. 3922.
General Electric Co. (India) Ltd.—Electrical
Engineers and Contractors : Agents for
electrical goods and appliances—Magnet House, Central Avenue. Phone, Cal. 4613.
Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., W. T.
Engineers and Contractors : Manufacturers of electric wires and cables—Henley
House, Old Court House Corner. Phone, Cal. 1346.
Indian Cable Co., Ltd.
Manufacturers of all classes of rubber insulated cables and wires—9 Hare
Street. Phone, Cal. 1000.
Osler. F. & C., Ltd. Electrical
Engineers and Contractors—12 Old Court House Street. Phone, Cal. 478.
Philips Electrical Co. (India)
Ltd. Manufacturers of electrical metal filament, lamps, fittings, radio
products. X-ray material- Philips House, 2 Heysham Road. Phone, P.K. 1107.
Siemens (India) Ltd. Manufacturers
of electrical goods—26 Central Avenue. Phons.Cal.4891.
Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd.
Manufactururs of telephone systems and cables, and radio transmitting and
receiving equipment:—4 Esplanade East. Phone, Cal. 1255.
(COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reproduced under 'fair dealing' terms as part of a non commercial
educational research project. The copyright remains with John Barry
1940)
FOUR towns alone in India—Calcutta, Bombay,
Ahmedabad and Cawnpore—representing less than 1/2% of the total
population—consume 50% of the country's output of electrical energy. This
estimate which Mr H. M. Mathews recently gave in a New Delhi speech, sets out
one aspect of the colossal problem of electrical planning in India. In general,
production of electrical energy in India is far behind that of advanced
countries. What India produces in a year the USA does in a week. Britain
produces 100 times more energy per head than India, whose 3,578 million kW are
for a population of 400 million.
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commercial educational research project. The copyright remains with The Statesman)
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