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Show Leverhulme Built Up Big Industry The passing of Lord Leverhulme, the great soap magnate, has focused widespread attention on the tremendous tremen-dous dally output of that commodity from the works he founded at Tort Sunlight. , In 1880,' when the flrm'a first boiling of soap was made at the original factory fac-tory at Warrington, the output wa 20 tons a week. Now It Is over 4,0(10 tons a week, necessitating the employment employ-ment of 10,000 workers and the use of 10,KiO.X)0 packing cases a year. The latter requires the consumption of 20,000,000 tons of v ood. I'ort Sunlight was founded In 1RS9. the site having been selected by Iord Leverhulme himself In his search for suitable riverside factory premises. In 10 years the business had grown so large that the site of the fuctories was extended to 800 acres. The trains employed annually ' In carrying goods from the factories would, If placed end to end. reach from Liverpool to London Lon-don London Tit-Bits. |