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wrong for a foreign court to impose an order on a
British company forcing them to break a contract which had been entered upon properly and fairly in the course of commercial operations. This decision was appealed and the appeal court confirmed it, noting that the US judge had expressed some doubt as to the likelihood of his decision being accepted in the UK.
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Courtaulds said BNS was close to full production and planning to increase capacity. This would mean retaining profits within BNS but Courtaulds and ICI hoped that they would soon receive
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Pontypool site had a production plant, a pilot plant, a building devoted to testing and developing the products to support their successful use by customers (Technical Development Department), an administration block and a research and development block. Most of the buildings were
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Pontypool on 20 April 1948. However, there were quality problems so initially only one machine was in experimental use. The first problem was with discoloured polymer; then there was a wide variety of yarn production issues. These took months of combined effort to solve. By
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in 1944. On 30 July 1952 the judge made an order requiring ICI to reassign the patents to Du Pont within 90 days. This would have ruined BNS so they applied to the
British court to obtain an injunction to restrain ICI from complying with the US court's order. The judge decided that it would be quite
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September of the same year, plans for big extensions were announced for Doncaster Works. 900 people were working there. This would increase by 400–500 men and 50–100 women. The cost was estimated at £3-£4 M. Completion was due by the end of 1958. Eventually there would be 1800 people of whom 90%
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with a nominal capital of £300,000 and took equal shares in the company. The product was badly needed to make parachutes, especially after Japan's entry into the war in
December 1941 blocked supplies of silk. Given the timing, it may well be that the Government 'persuaded' the two companies to do
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two million pounds a year for five years, "to take account of the future development expenditure of
Courtaulds in the nylon field". In return Courtaulds were to transfer to ICI their 50 per cent holding in BNS. BNS was absorbed into ICI's existing fibres operation, ICI Fibres, which was based on
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ropes instead of the traditional wire ropes. It was said that commercial shipping had been doing so for some time. Compared with wire they gave much more strength relative to weight, retained flexibility in the cold, withstood sudden shocks, and retained strength in the wet.
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Town Council to discuss unemployment there. He said he hoped that BNS could be persuaded to make their new investment in Scotland and that a great deal of work had been done on a £6M proposal for a new dry dock in Greenock.
259:, the Lord Lieutenant. It had a fine hall used for dancing and concerts. Over the years many famous performers gave concerts there. In 1959/60 a clubhouse was built at Doncaster. It was opened on 10 October 1960 by the
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to make nylon polymer. This would have a capacity of 10,000 lb. per year. Some of this polymer would go to Plastics Division but most would go to BNS. During the war polymer had been made in
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some reward for their investment. The outlook was good. One year later they said BNS had made substantial progress and work had begun on expansion. In 1952 progress was continuing.
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would be men. There would be a three shift system. Besides production, team of experts would be employed to improve the company's expertise with nylon staple.
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had granted nylon thread patents to ICI in December 1946. In turn ICI had granted exclusive rights to BNS the following March. However the
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