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MISCELLANEOUS

No. 165.

Confidential.

RETURN OF BRITISH FACTORIES ESTABLISHED ABROAD SINCE 1880. (The figures are approximate and usually very imperject.)

Hands

Country.

Consulate.

Firms. employed.

Chief Industries.

AUSTRIA-

HUNGARY.

Budapest

Fiume

Trieste

2

441

Cotton (266)

Vienna :-

Salzburg, Lai-

7

bach, Lem-

berg.

Prague

1

43

BELGIUM ...

Antwerp...

24

+3,593

Notes.

515

Shipbuilding (1,350). gloves (396),

The chief firm is one- fourth Hungarian.

One engineering_worke

established 1850.

Two of Canadian origin.

And 2

failures.

number

of

Three are partly Bel- gian. Also six (1,715) established before

1880. Number of hands employed by

six firms not given.

A silk factory (150) is

half-owned

British Firm.

by 8

BULGARIA

Varna

1

550

Cotton

DENMARK

Copenhagen

FRANCE...

Bordeaux

Calais

Dunkirk...

Havre

•

6

+33

230

+6,461

Cotton.

7

500

Calico print- ing (240).

Lyons

Marseilles

Nantes

.I

1

I

40

Nice

1

35

Parla

...

1

60

50

G 467

Wt 14422 10/08 D8 5 18808

Much British capital invested in Danish firms.

Also two firms have failed. Two older firms still at work.

There

are

probably

more, but it is very difficult to find out,

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