A Survey of Palestinian Industry: The Metal Industries in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 523. Chapter XIII: Section 4

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1,419 in 1939. Deliveries of ready-made Utility goods alone in 1944 amounted to £P.1,622,500 (valued at retail prices) while recorded exports of wearing apparel were £P.900,000. There are fair prospects that both domestic and export sales of wearing apparel, particularly fashion goods, may continue, as the technical skill, the sense of style and the experience are available; the markets that have been established during the war have tended to create an element of goodwill and the industry is already renewing and extending its European contacts.

Ill. THE METAL, INDUSTRIES.

146. Precise figures are not available for each of the main articles produced by the metal industry; but quantitative data for the principal categories are indicated in the following table :-

1 9 3 9 I 1 9 4 2
Gross Persons Gross I Persons
output \ engaged output engaged
£P. No. £P. No.
Cutlery and domestic ware 29,966 88 68,090 248
Steel and iron beds, sofas
and medical furniture 30,843 88 28,856 67
Locks and fittings 22,028 95 259,830 316
Tin products 30,471 100 1,057,285 1,675
Wire and wire products 113,962 168 16~.806 25'.:!
Lamps and shades 10,915 60 20,667 54
Iron doors, windows etc. and
light construction 65,347 447 344,003 869
Foundries 44,741 255 365,157 742
Bus bodies, ambulances, trucks 41,310 220 190,522 276
Scientific and professional instruments 9,181 73 54,638 163
Motor vehicle parts 13,017 58 87,024 192
Agricultural machinery and
equipment 14,488 87 58,476 114
Office furniture nod equipment 9,258 40 18,498 38
Engineering end machine
construction 58,lRO 289 370,931 894
Mechanical workshops 36,035 253 824,101 1,935
Stoves, small boilers, geysers
and parts thereof 16,218 39 116,638 139
Water supply equipment and
fittings, fire extinguishers 17,751 105 69,378 154
Electrical fittings, equipment
and appliances ss.aie I rsa ssa.sss sse
Electro-plating 4,405 37 38,063 122
Tools and implements 3,212 30 42,llS 124
Miscellaneous 46,673 lSO 140,6i8 274
Total 670,313 2,860 4,607 '738 9,244
147. In 1942, 88% of the persons employed were engaged in, and 94% of the production in the metal industry was derived from Jewish establishments.

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