BRITAIN DELIVERS THE PLOUGHS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23361, 21 June 1941, Page 6

BRITAIN DELIVERS THE PLOUGHS

EXPORTS TO TURKEY, BURMA, EGYPT, AND SOUTH AFRICA

Ploughs made to a special design for Turkey were among the agricultural implements sent out from Great Britain overseas last year. South Africa, and particularly Rhodesia, had a wide range of higher class manufactures. Burma, India, and Egypt took cheaper wares. ... . . Cultivators of the latter countries were actually using, a century and a half ago, ploughs identical with those handled by their ancestors 2000 years before. It was Britain who introduced to these and other lands of primitive agriculture the first light (321b) - steelshared ploughs. The makers, catering for the poorest of native cultivators, made as well disc ploughs weighing three and a half tons. Many British makers have been supplying overseas markets for close on two centuries. They have been able to 'keep steadily, going since the war because of the accumulation of raw material which they had the foresight to put aside.' The result was that they could send abroad during 1940 more than £-1.000,000 worth of ploughs and other agricultural implements and machinery such as threshers (£30,000 worth), air and gas compressors (£26,000), and tractor* .(£300,000).