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BRITISH INDUSTRIES ACTIVE

MANY VALUABLE CONTRACTS SECURED The gradual but steady revival in trade in Britain is reflected in the activities of the iron and steel and engineering industries. According to the latest report of the Department of Overseas Trade the shipment of pig iron during October 1927 amounted to 26,145 tons as against 6 215 tons in October of 1926. During the first ten months of last year the exports amounted to 206,281 tons as compared with 269,767 tons exported in the corresponding period of IJ-o. Production of pig iron in October amounted to 596,300 tons, compared with 591,500 tons in September and 596,100 tons in August. The production includes 193,700 tons of hematite, 198 800 tons of basic, 148,300 tons of foundry and 29,400 tons of forge pig The production of steel ingots and castings amounted to 699,000 tons in October compared with 777,000 tons in September and 643,100 tons in August The following table shows the average monthly production of pig >rcn and Steel ingots and castings in IJM 1920 1923-26 and the production ol each’ month since October, 1926.

A large number of important c . on " tracts for engineering and electrical equipment have been secured by British firms in the face of strong Continental competition. A Manchester firm has contracted to supply a new granary of 80,000 tons canacitv and extensive grain-handling equipment, to the value of £BOO,OOO, for the port of Bahia Blanca, to the order of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Co. The unloading plant will be capable of dealing with twenty-four 45-ton railway trucks at once and an elaborate system of mechanical belt co - vevors will make it possible to oad grain to ships at the rate of 6000 tons per hour. This firm also prepared the scheme on which the new works are k*The West Australian Railways have placed ar. order with a Barrow firm for rails and fishplates for 130 miles ° track, and numerous contracts for the supply of locomotives, trucks and othei railway plant have been P ? vlth British firms by Indian, South African, and Egyptian railways. The New Zealand Government has placed large orders with British firms for wire and other material for the Post arid Telegraph Department, and has awarded the contract for a year s supply of motor spirit for the Norf Island with the British Imperial Oil L “""Birmingham firm has secured the order for about 350 showcases of glass in bronze frames for the Auckland War Memorial Museum. rhe Dunedin Cit Council has ordered a rtar treatment plant with a capacity of 10 tons of crude tar a day, and a rotary side discharge '' The’ Argentine Government lias placed a contract in Sheffield for the supply of 15,000 tons of steel rails and a firm has also secured the contract for the supply of tramway trackwork for the Leopoldina, Buenos Aires Western, and Buenos Aires Great Southern Railwavs. t .

19t3— Monthly average 1920— Monthly average 1923— Monthly average 1924— Monthly average 1925— Monthly average 1920— Monthly average Steel ingots aid Pig-iron, castings. 'tons. Tons. 855,000 638,600 669.500 755,600 620,000 706,800 609,000 185,100 521,800 615,500 203.500 296 700 13.100 94,200 November .... December ..... 1927 —January February .... 12.700 98,000 434,600 571,100 671 SOO 97,500 . 319,300 730,700 S26.800 949,600 680.000 850,100 720,100 884,600 June ..... 651,300 645,800 747,300 687,100 August September .... October 506,100 591,500 596,200 643,100 777 000 699,000

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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 8

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BRITISH INDUSTRIES ACTIVE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 8

BRITISH INDUSTRIES ACTIVE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 8