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Hoio to establish a Tile- Yard. 
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every expense ; tlie tiles are 15 inches long, made with a flange : 
price of coals 24s. per ton. These tiles are sold at 16s. per 1000 ; 
and the soles, of the same length, at 10s. per 1000. These are 
made by Etheredge's machine. 
Mr. Parkes states that pipes made by Clayton's machines, of 
inch bore, are sold at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, at 12.9.* per 1000, 
12 inches long; pipes 2^ inches bore, at 18s. per 1000, 12 inches 
long ; coals about 20.y. per ton. 
JNlr. Hodges states that pipes 1 inch bore, 12 inches long, made 
by Hatcher's machine at Benenden, Kent, are sold at 12s. per 
1000; 2j inches bore, 12 inches long, at 20s. per 1000; coals at 
24s. per ton. 
The great difference in the price of tiles arises from good or 
bad management. I know two yards, one in Worcestershire, 
the other in Herefordshire, where there is a difference of lis. 
per 1000 in the cost of producing the same sized tiles ; coals the 
same price at both yards, and both using the same machine. If 
a machine of any kind will make cheap and good tiles at one tile- 
yard, it will at another. The great evil is that the inventors of the 
machines do not make it imperative on purchasers to allow them 
to send a man to start them properly, for if the slightest difficulty 
is found by the workmen the machines are condemned (a:^ they 
are generally prejudiced against improvements) with only a few 
hours' trial. 
Every one must be aware that, although so many hands are 
not noiv employed to produce a given number of tiles as formerly, 
instead of there being one tile-yard in a district there are now 
five. Yet I believe that the most difficult point consequently is to 
find useful men to take the management of the numerous small 
works established ; and that, although machinery has reduced the 
price of the article, it has not been the means of throwing out of 
employment a single hand, but that it has created not only labour 
* 10«. is the price I pay for inch pipes, with coals at 20s. — Ph. Pusey. 
