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Rising wool prices and technical advances in artificial fibres have provided Europe's man‐made textile producer's with booming business. But with prices yet to regain a healthy level after last year's production surplus, British manufacturers view with growing concern the Government's counter inflation measures. Roger Eglin reports.

Although textiles is one of the oldest crafts and goes back to prehistory—it is believed that weaving grew up in the neolithic or later stone age—our modern civilization is producing such rapid and numerous developments in so many aspects of the subject that the individual is hard put to keep up with only a fraction of them.

The Secretary of State after consultation with the Man‐made Fibres Producing Industry Training Board and with organisations and associations of organisations appearing to be representative respectively of substantial numbers of employers engaging in the activities hereinafter mentioned and of substantial numbers of persons employed in those activities and in exercise of her powers under section 9 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—

The Secretary of State after approving proposals submitted by the Man‐made Fibres Producing Industry Training Board for the imposition of a further levy on employers in the man‐made fibres producing industry and in exercise of powers conferred by section 4 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—

The Minister of Labour after approving proposals submitted by the Man‐made Fibres Producing Industry Training Board for the imposition of a levy upon employers in the man‐made fibres producing industry and by virtue of the powers conferred on him by section 4 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—

The Secretary of State after approving proposals submitted by the Man‐made Fibres Producing Industry Training Board for the imposition of a further levy on employers in the man‐made fibres producing industry and in exercise of powers conferred by section 4 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—

The Secretary of State after approving proposals submitted by the Man‐made Fibres Producing Industry Training Board for the imposition of a further levy on employers in the man‐made fibres producing industry and in exercise of her powers under section 4 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—

The purpose of this paper is to investigate three preparation processes and the photoluminescent (PL) properties of PbS/poly(p‐phenylene vinylene) (PPV) composite fibres.

By the combination of electrospinning technology, chemical vapour deposition and chemical liquid deposition, PbS/PPV composite nanofibres were prepared by three simple methods. The morphologies of the fibres and the PL properties were researched with the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and the eclipse fluorescence spectrophotometer.

By different synthetic methods, the dispersion morphologies of PbS nanoparticles and the PL properties of their respective PbS/PPV composite fibres were different. Moreover, the effects of PbS nanoparticles on the luminescence quenching of the PPV were observed in all the synthesised PbS/PPV composite fibres, respectively.

The dispersion morphologies of PbS nanoparticles were not uniform enough.

A new method was used for preparing nanoparticles/polymer composite fibres.

The combination of electrospinning technology and chemical liquid deposition was used for the first time to fabricate the sulfide/polymer composite fibres. In addition, we hope that the results obtained here will provide some useful evidences for the interaction mechanism between IV‐VI group semiconductors and conjugated polymers, and the prepared composite fibres will have applications in the nano‐optoelectronic field.

Whereas the Minister of Labour (hereafter in this Order referred to as “the Minister”) has received from the Rope, Twine and Net Wages Council (Great Britain) the wages regulation proposals set out in Schedules 1 and 2 hereof;

Competition in the international textiles markets has been tremendous. With the previously‐strong British industry looking unhappy after taking some body blows recently, it is time for the companies to strive hard. Report by Malcolm Bennett; colour photograph by Paul Berriff.