This is a commercial film promoting Lancashire as a centre for many types of industry, showing work in coal mines, textiles, engineering and several other industries. The film starts showing water wheels and cotton mills before moving onto coal mining.  Shirtless miners are hacking at a coal face.  As the coal lumps pass along a conveyer belt, men sort out the different sizes.  Then there is a coal fired power station followed by footage of a cotton mill.  Then inside a paper mill, paper is...

This is a commercial film promoting Lancashire as a centre for many types of industry, showing work in coal mines, textiles, engineering and several other industries. The film starts showing water wheels and cotton mills before moving onto coal mining.  Shirtless miners are hacking at a coal face.  As the coal lumps pass along a conveyer belt, men sort out the different sizes.  Then there is a coal fired power station followed by footage of a cotton mill.  Then inside a paper mill, paper is being thrown into a large tank of water to be pulped.  It eventually emerges on large paper rolls.  Then the film shows rows of men and women at work where they are making hats.  This is followed by a glassworks, where large sheets of hot glass pass along a conveyer belt to be cut into pieces.  The film next shows wireless sets and electric meters being manufactured in a factory, mass produced as they pass along a conveyer belt.  Then onto steel cables which are manufactured at the Miller Company.  The steel cables are later transported by lorry.  Finally there is a large iron and steel works, followed by ‘engineering products of every conceivable kind’.  These include steel girders used in construction, bridges and large motors, with examples of more modern products, including steam engines (4974), ships and aeroplanes.  The film ends with the subtitles: ‘This is Lancashire’, ‘Sends her exports all over the world’, as cargo is seen loaded onto ships, and there is a 4 funnelled cruise ship. Title – The End