EGYPTIAN CONTRACT
NEW BARRAGE ON THE NILE. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, February 14. The British engineering firm of Ransomes and Rapier, Ipswich, has secured from the Egyptian Government a contract for construction of sluice gates on the new Mohammed Ali barrage, which is being built at a cost of £2,250,000 at the junction of the Xile north of Cairo Xmetyfour pairs of sluice gates and six power-operated machines of special design for use with the jratcH arc to lie built. The work will extend over three years and will be begun within the next few months.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 7
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