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The following lists indicate the workshops, workplaces and
factories on the registers and show the large variety of manufacturing
processes which are carried on in Finsbury:—
Factories.—Cardboard box making 44, instrument, jewellery,
etc., box making 17, packing case making 27, brushes and combs 9,
house repairs and decorating 6, patent flooring 1, tarred felt making
1, clock and watch case making 12, watch making and repairing 18,
cloth shrinking 3, pleating 4, disinfectants and soaps manufacturing
4, drug grinding 1, druggists sundries 17, making and repairing
addressing machines 1, making and repairing motors and cycles 16,
making and repairing domestic machinery 5, making and repairing
springs 1, making and repairing typewriting machinery 2, model
and pattern making 8, smithing and wheelwrights' work 8, making
and repairing sewing machines 7, making and repairing electrical
goods and machinery 19, general engineering 118, wireless components
5, artificial flower making 14, embroidery 12, making and importing
fancy goods 15, ivory and tortoise-shell working 6, leather
goods 47, pipe making and mounting 25, toy making 5, walking sticks
and umbrellas 41, trouser presses 2, sports goods 13, cleaning feathers
4, dyeing and curling feathers 7, horsehair cleaning 2, cabinet
making 25, carpet planning 1, picture-frame making 11, shop
fitting 18, upholstery 5, cold storage 6, confectionery 9, drysalting
1, food preparing 20, mineral waters 3, cordial and spirit
colouring 1, glass stoppers making 3, glass working 22, sand
blasting 2, jewellery making and repairing 35, gold and silver
refining 4, rouge manufacturing 1, silversmiths 31, repairs 5, steam
laundries 4, diamond cutting and polishing 4, glaziers diamonds
making 3, brass workers 18, coppersmiths 10, engraving and die
sinking 26, foundry 8, gilding, plating and polishing 86, general
metal-working 31, type-founding 6, wire-working 12, sheet-metal
working 13, aerography 2, paint, enamel and varnish making 5,
panel and screen painting 2, musical instrument making and
repairing 19, scientific instrument making 33, electrical instrument
making 8, optical instrument making 26, photographic instrument
making 1, surgical instrument making 12, weighing and
scales instruments making 10, art publishing 24, envelope and
paper bag making 6, gold blocking 4, ink and gum making 8,