BRITISH INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 9

BRITISH INDUSTRY.

SIGNS OF PROSPERITY. MR. J. SEABROOK'S OBSERVATIONS. "Generally speaking, the conditions in England outwardly show decided signs of prosperity and solidity, and the people are looking to the future most cheerfully," said Mr. John Seabrook, managing director of Seabrook, Fowlds, Ltd., who returned to-day on the Niagara after a four months' tour of Great Britain. "In the Midlands, the great manufacuring areas, the workers are much better off than they have been for a long period." As a result of the increased shipbuilding programme the heavy steel industry was prospering, and the same applied to all engineering trades, said Mr. Seabrook. The motor industry was booming, and in most of the largest motor factories night and day shifts were being worked in order to cope with the demand for cars. Owing to the high cost of raw material prices for cars showed a tendency to rise. Mr. Seabrook expressed the opinion that the English motor car manufacturers were definitely making progress, and they were mapping out plans for the future which w-ould not only enable the English car to hold the overseas Doniinions»markct§, but would greatly expand their'export trade.