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‘Much has been written and more said in public during recent months about production and the need for more and more of it if our country is to succeed in its fight for economic stability and all those who produce have been asked repeatedly to give 100 % output. It is true to say that a very large number of the main products of Oldbury works are not ‘finished articles’ in the generally accepted understanding of the phrase. They are largely raw materials for the fabrication or production of many goods seen in the shops or used by all of us every day. We go on day by day producing and producing steel stampings, tubes, chemicals, and many other bulk articles, but do we ever stop to think or ask why they must be produced or what they ultimately become?

Our Local Employment Committee has sponsored this demonstration not to advertise any particular product, but in an endeavour to show everybody what Oldbury makes, why Oldbury makes it, and where Oldbury products go – what becomes of the millions of feet of tubes, thousands of tone of chemicals and the steel stampings that we are so accustomed to see in our local factories.

Do you tend a machine, do you work in a filter press, do you grind an edge tool just as a means of earning your weekly wages, or do you do it with some zeal and pride? I hope this latter is the case as it is only by having this stage of production as perfect as possible that the final articles can be made without undue waste and so at prices and quantities that will satisfy the demand and help our country to recover its commercial stability.’