HUGE PLANT ORDERS.
ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY. RECORD FOR BRITAIN. LONDON, April 18. British manufacturers of electrical equipment have in hand to-day contracts for £12,000,000 worth of generating, plant representing a total power of over 1,000,000 kilowatts. This is the largest amount of electrical plant ever to have been in process of manufacture at one time.
Other indications of the growing importance of the industry are revealed in the seventh annual report of the Central Electricity # Board. The report states: —
The grid has already saved £9,000,000 in capital investment in generating plant.
Four hundred thousand persons are employed in the industry, compared with 25J.,000 in 1921.
A credit balance of £85,101 is shown on the year's general trading account.
Britain's output of electricity has increased by 50 per cent since 1929—five times the expansion of world output.
For the first time since the depression production of electricity in the north-east exceeded the 1929 output.
The output of electricity from the public supply systems shows a progressive growth. The percentage increases each year since 1930 are: 1930, G per cent; 1931, 4.6; 1932, 7.3; 1933, 10.7; 1934, 14.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 7
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