Basel Mission tile factory
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The Common Wealth Trust Ltd or locally referred to as Basel Mission tile factory run by the German missionary Plebot (Georg Plebst in reality), with an unnamed Indian master-potter,[1] was the first Mangalore tile manufacturing factory to be set up in India in 1860[2] on banks of the Nethravathi river near Morgan's Gate,[3] about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Ullal bridge.[4]
