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OFFENSIVE TRADES
There is no establishment in the district carrying on an
Offensive Trade.
PREVENTION OF ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION
The general standard of efficiency in the management of
industrial furnaces in the area is. satisfactory and ready co-operation
is received from firms guilty of occasional lapses. During the year,
209 observations were made on factory chimneys and, arising from
subsequent action, one firm installed a grit arrestor, another
converted two Lancashire boilers to automatic stoking, and another
made adaptations to their plant which resulted in a considerable
reduction of smoke.
THE FACTORIES ACT, 1937
There are one hundred and forty-four factories with mechanical
power and nine factories without mechanical power on the Register,
with a range of products including :—
Aircraft, building materials, caravans, carbon products,
cheese, chocolate, cocoa, coffee extracts, electrical transformers,
furniture, lubricating oil, optical lenses, potato crisps, pianos,
radio, radar, television, gramophone records and gramophones,
rubber, tarmacadam, and wood-block floors.

* (including defects found, but not remedied, in 1950)
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