BRITISH EXPORTS DO WELL

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 11

BRITISH EXPORTS DO WELL

Big Foreign Contracts

Received

ELECTRICAL GOODS AND

MACHINERY

(“Dominion” Special Service: By Airmail.)

LONDON. November 25

Official figures relating to the volume and value of overseas trade to September of the current yeai show several groups in which Biitish exports are doing well, more specially machinery and electrical goods, locomotives and rubber manufactures.

Since the period covered by those statistics important contracts have been received from abroad by British firms.

Among them is an order for a coalwashing plant for the Ear East. This order involves the shipment of 2000 tons of steelwork and machinery, and the complete installation will be aide to deal with 500 tons of coal an hour. From Canada,- Harland ami Wolf, Ltd., the well-known British shipbuilders. have received a £120,000 contract for reconstruction and reuecoration work on four Canadian Pacific liners, which arc engaged on the weekly service between Liverpool and Canada. A feature of this contract is that the regular sailings of these vessels will not be interrupted, as the reconstruction work will be carried out at Liverpool between each voyage. An important recent, order was lhe award to a British firm of printing machinery manufacturers of a contract value at’nearly £60,000 by a leading Finnish newspaper. This contract was obtained in face of severe coinpetition and despite the fact that for 50 years the paper in question had been printed on presses of non-British manufacture. Of equal interest is the news that a television system of British design and manufacture—as used by the British Broadcasting Corporation—has been purchased by the French Government, for transmissions from the Eiffel Tower, the contract being worth about £90.000.