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My mother used to do outwork for a company called 'Neweys' (I think that's how it is spelled) she used to bring home boxes of hypodermic syringes and sit there putting a fine piece of nylon (like fishing line) up the hole in the centre. It was somewhere around Aston but I'm afraid that is all the info I have. Hope it helps.
 
Neweys

My husband worked for Neweys for about 22 years....initially in Summer Lane.To my knowledge they had sites at Summer Lane, Tipton and Hall Green

I have quite an interesting book on the history of the company, I will look up outworkers and see if theres any extracts I can send you, Frantic. Carol, I will look up Tubers in it also, to see if there is any reference or link to the hyperdemic needle work.

In 1997 Neweys celebrated 200 years as a company - they hired The Black Country Museum for the day. Workers, and their families, past and present went, free food, drinks, all amenities, celebratory photso's, a boxed comemerative dish.

Sadly, the following year the company closed.
 
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