ABSTRACT
by the beginning of the twentieth century the modern flat-glass industry had taken shape in this country. There were only two firms of significance in England; Pilkington’s were by this time more important than Chance’s who made no polished plate and very little sheet glass. During this period international competition and international negotiation and manoeuvre came to be important. This was for-shadowed in 1894 when Pilkington’s built a new plate-glass works at Maubeuge in France.
