IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPBUILDING
BUSINESS BETTER THAN FOR YEARS frRE.VF INCREASE ON 1933 V I I '.3«;nsu orn.::.!:. winf-J.a-'. I ; (Received September 2, 7.15 p.m.) RUGBY. August 31. J It is reported that shipbuilding on i the Tyne shows an improvement of j 400 per cent, over the 1933 statistics. \ ! Clyde shipyards show an August output of 11 vessels of 33,211 tons. the highest for any month since - October, 1930. s The output for the first eight v . months of 1934 was 3G vessels, of 67,786 tons, which already exceeds the 1933 total bv 12,000 tons. The new 73,000-ton Cunard-White f Star liner is also under construcI tion and in each month since last f August more tonnage has been ordered than launched. At Govan, where last year con--3 struction was at a standstill, 5000 s men are now working and the im- ! provement is general throughout ; j the district.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21259, 3 September 1934, Page 11
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