PRODUCE AND MARKET REPORTS FROM DAY TO DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1927, Page 11

PRODUCE AND MARKET REPORTS FROM DAY TO DAY

"Evening Post," 24th January. From official advices received by the British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand it would appear that 1927 opens well for the British manufacturer. Among the lutest contracts received for overseas countries are 42 ballast wagons, 9 bogie platform wagons, 25 locomotives for India, overhead electric travellers for Victorian Government railways, 10 first-class carriages for Rhodesian railways, 150 thirty-ton wagons, 10 thirty-ton brake vans, 20 bogie tank wagons for the Sudan Government railways, 7 first-class bogie dining cars, 2 sleepers, 800 bogie wagons for Argentine railways, 20 tank locomotives for the Autof agasta and Bolivia railways. The floating dock for Singapore is to cost £1,200,000 to be constructed on thi- Tyne. Large submarines are being built by Sir W. G. ArmstrongWhitworth, for the Jugo-Slav Government, also an oil tanker of 8000 tons for the Baltic Trading Company. Other contracts include underground tube railways for the city of Buenos Aires similar to latest London tube railways—a work of considerable magnitude in construction and equipment. Thornycrofts are constructing small fast cruisers for the Argentine, and cruising hydroplanes for the Government of Brazil and for the Suez Canal Company. Four steel bridges for Lagos, West Africa, a tug for Penang; 50 motor-'bus?s for service •in Athens, electric steering gear for a steamer of 11,000 tons, being built for Norwegian owners at St. Knzuire; cotton milling machinery for Australia, to the value of £1,000,000; three cargo steamers of 8000 tons and one of 5900 tons for Bombay, to be built on the Clydo; a steam yacht, 1100: tons, to be built at Cowes, Isle of Wight; 36 electric cranes for Santoß, Brazil; a tanker of 8000 tons for Burmah; a generator and condenser of 5000 k.v./ for Saskatchewan, Canada; a steamer 450 feet in length for Pruk owners; motor vehicles, for Russia* China, New Zealand, and Australia; 5000 tons rails for the Egyptian State Hailways, are among some of the new work in hand or beginning. •