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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 43, instrument, jewellery,
etc., box making 16, packing case making 30, brushes and combs 9,
house repairs and decorating 5, patent flooring 1, tarred felt making
1, clock and watch case making 11, watch making and repairing 19,
cloth shrinking 3, pleating 7, disinfectants and soaps manufacturing
4, drug grinding 1, druggists sundries 17, making and repairing
addressing machines 1, making and repairing motors and cycles 18,
making and repairing domestic machinery 6, 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 9, making and repairing electrical
goods and machinery 18, general engineering 121, wireless components
9, artificial flower making 15, embroidery 13, making and importing
fancy goods 20, ivory and tortoise-shell working 6, leather
goods 52, pipe making and mounting 24, toy making 6, walking sticks
and umbrellas 38, trouser presses 2, sports goods 13, cleaning feathers
3, dyeing and curling feathers 7, horsehair cleaning 2, cabinet
making 24, carpet planning 1, picture-frame making 10, shop
fitting 20, upholstery 8, cold storage 6, confectionery 10, drysalting
1, food preparing 19, mineral waters 3, cordial and spirit
colouring 1, glass stopper making 3, glass working 21, sand
blasting 2, jewellery making and repairing 34, gold and silver
refining 4, rouge manufacturing 1, silversmiths 28, jewellery repairs 6,
steam laundries 4, diamond cutting and polishing 4, glaziers' diamond
making 3, brass workers 16, coppersmiths 10, engraving and die
sinking 25, foundry 8, gilding, plating and polishing 81, general
metal-working 29, type-founding 6, wire-working 12, sheet-metal
working 10, aerography 2, paint, enamel and varnish making 5,
panel and screen painting 2, musical instrument making and
repairing 20, scientific instrument making 33, electrical instrument
making 7, optical instrument making 26, photographic instrument
making 1, surgical instrument making 11, weighing and
scales instruments making 9, art publishing 23, envelope and
paper bag making 6, gold blocking 4, ink and gum making 8,