Nicholas Wilcox Cundy

“ Therefore less capital would be employed? Less capital. A number of our orders are for patterns that we never keep in stock, which are of peculiar make and shape.
29. When you speak of missing the opportunities for foreign orders by delay of communication, do you speak of circumstances which occur frequently, or are they rare? ”

“ We suffer very considerably. It frequently happens that ships are chartered or under engagements to go out on a certain day; when the ship has not her full freight, the owners of the vessel frequently, on their own account, say they will take freight at a certain rate under the ordinary price; any delay that then may arise loses us the order if we cannot get up the goods; if we had two days we could frequently get them. From the peculiar nature of glass manufacture the orders are received on a Monday morning, and we cannot possibly make them till Thursday ”