Utility Footwear (Specifications)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.

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Mr. Platte-Mills:

In the absence of any minimum specification of quality for utility footwear, is not the President of the Board of Trade apprehensive that, owing to the rising cost of living and the demand for cheaper footwear, some people may be tempted to put this sort of shoddy on the market?