ABSTRACT
From the first signs that tin was in trouble to the creation of the machinery that would permit a solution took two difficult years. Getting there required the formation of several coalitions, between the British producers in Malaya, between the British, the Bolivians and the Dutch and finally between the producers and their respective governments. While Howeson was the key figure in shaping most of these coalitions, it was the continued deterioration in the condition of the industry that led others to a rather different assessment of its future which ultimately permitted the emergence of a common front.
