20.500.12592/dkd5q4
Book-Binding Capacity. Note by Board of Trade.
7 July 1942
Summary
A further possibility would be to alter the present distribution of the 85 million books produced with present capacity, as between cased and flush bound books by directing that a higher proportion should be of the latter type. This might result in some loss of total production, as the labour which is now employed on the book-casing machines could not turn out, at any rate at first, so many books by hand production. The objection to this would be that the production of limp and flush bound books is only suitable for books below a certain size, so that it would only be appropriate to take such measures if it were also to be decided to alter to some extent the type of book to be produced.
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retail infrastructure books consumer goods distribution employment industrial equipment industrial production industrial workers industry labour supply libraries manufacturing materials paper printing publications publishing textiles the blitz board of trade relations nationwide lord president's committee publishers association sub-committee on the supply of books british federation of master printers
