PRODUCE AND MARKET REPORTS FROM DAY TO DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 64, 17 March 1927, Page 11

PRODUCE AND MARKET REPORTS FROM DAY TO DAY

TRADE REVIVAL

BIG BRITISH CONTRACTS

SHIPS, ENGINES, AND MACHINERY

'Evening Post, 17th March.

• Mr. L. B. Beale, Britisli Trade Commissioner m New Zealand, has been advised by the Department of Overseas Trade, London, of important contracts received by British firms during December. They are genuine indications of the revival of trade in the United Kingdom, following the end of the coal strike, and they also prove the maintenance of the strong position held by British engineers and shipbuilders in the esteem of Dominions and foreign Governments, and customers overseas generally. Shipbuilding: Workman, Clark and Co, Belfast, 12,000-ton oil tanker for An~lol American Uil Co., with Sulzer type engine, ot eight cylinders, 3500 h.p. Sir dimes Liaing and bons, Sunderland, 12,000-ton oil tanker tor Anglo-American Oil Co., with Doxiord engine, 3500 h.p., loaded speed innnn?° S' Green°!=k Dockyard Company, 10 000-toa motor ship, the first motor vessel for the Clan Line-a line owning 50 ships. Ayrshn-e Dockyard Company, Irvine, passenger vessel, 3000 tons, for the Sociedad Anonima Gunadera y Commercial Menendez-Behety of Punta Arenas, South America. The engines will be furnished by J G. Kincaid, Greeuock. Harked and Wolft, Gavan on the Clyde, two 011 tankers, tor Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, London, similar in type to four for which orders were placed by the same owner with this firm last March Of these four, two were 2300 tons, one 3600 tous, and one 1050 tons. Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow, have sceured a contract for a third large oil tanker, built for the Gulf Refining Company, of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, bwaii, Hunter, Wigliam, and Richardson, Walkcnd-on-Tyne, contract for a fruit steamer, 254 feet in length, 14 knots speed, for Norwegian owners. Barclay, Curie and Co., Whitemch and Scotstown West, on the Clyde, contracts for a motor cargo steamer for the Ellerman Lines, and a motor-ship for Norwegian owners, additional to a large motor ship now under construction. Smith's Dock Company, Southbank-on-Tees, a 4000-ton steamer for service on Canadian lakes. John I Ihornycroft and Co., Southampton, six torpedo craft, 60ft long, 40 knots speed, tor the Serbian Government; each costing. £22,000; also, for the Central African Railway, sis steel lighters. Armstrong, Whitworth, Walker-on-Tyne, two submarines for the Jugo-Slav navy. DAY OF THE MOTOR-SHIP. Mr. Beale reports that a great advance in motor-ship construction throughout the world is a noticeable feature of the latest returns. The motor-ships under construction in the Un.ted Kingdom represent aboot 53± per cent, of tiie steam tonnage under construction, while the motor-ship, under construction throughout the world is 90 per tTo" StCam tonnaffe under eonstruc- . "In this connection (state, .the commissioner) the recent order placed by the Imperial Oil Company, Limited, Canada one ot the Associates of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, for two motorankers of 15,600 tons d.w., is of special interest as indicating the growing popularity of motor-propelled vessels of United- Kinmo?oT if Urtl°"{ af Pf actica»y all the new motor-tankers which have been built for tfm Standard Oil Company have formerly, been constructed in Germany " Engineering Contracts: Henry Simon, Manchester, af w granary and pneumatic machinery, and mechanical handling plant! for Santos Braz.l. PetterS, Yeovif direct coupling hgatinß Pftmt, and ■ generators for fcew South Wales and Western Mstrahan Governments; concrete mixers and stone-eruslimg machinery for Venezuelan Government; pumping sets for Trinidad engines for Durban, and Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and for the New Zealand Government. Dorman, Long, Middlesbrough have just completed witliin conT^vnt f nCS. a S£ eel ridee at Dessouk, Egypt, for the Egyptian State Railways! 1 Ins contract was secured in face of severe foreign competition, some firms quoting three years for completion, Dorman Long s undertaking to do the work in one year—and doing it. The same firm lias now reported good progress with a new bridge over the White Nile, at Khartoum. Hicks, Hargreaves, of Bolton, report contracts for water and gas machinery from Capetown; also Belgium, Russia, and Persia. Beckett and Anderson trlasgow, contracts for colliery machinery tor a Calcutta mining company. Sentinel Wagon Works, Shrewsbury, steam rail conches for the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, India. Beyer Peacock, Manchester, seven locomotives for the Federated Malay States. Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., electrical machinery for the New Zealand Government; also 104 motors of 230 h.p. each, for Norte Railway, Barcelona to Marnresa, and from Barcelona to San Juan do las Abadesas Morns-Oxford Company, a large number of la.Ob.p. cars and sis-whe«led trucks tor the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway.

SOME NEW ZEALAND CONTRACTS. The International Combustion Company is building and equipping a 12,000 kilowatt station at Perak, Malaya; and extension of boiler house plant at Abadan Oil Refineries, Persia. Calender's Cable Co., transmission lines for Nigerian Railways. Ransomer and Rapier, Ipswich, petrol electric mobile cranes for Aboukir, Egypt, France, and Spain. Ernest Turner, Manchester, gas singeing machinery, for Gronoau, Germany. Sir William Arrol, Glasgow, steel work, for New Zealand Government Railways. Associated Daimler, vehicles specially constructed for Australia and South America. Braithwaite and Co., West Bromwieh, spans for steel bridges, Bombay-Calcutta Railway; steel work for new Custom House, Shanghai; Port Trust Bombay; million gallon water tank for Nairobi, East Africa, and jetties for Abadan, Persia. C. A. Parsons, Newcastle-on-Tyne, electric machinery (12,500 k.w.) for Brisbane (COOO k.w.) for Calcutta, and (10,000 k.w.) for Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The last tender w*s considerably below the bids of North American competitors. The same firm secured substantial orders for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Ferranti, Hollinwood, transformers foi- Bunnerong, Sydney, New South Wales. British Insulated Cable Co., cables for Capetown. Platt, Bros., Manchester, equipment of now mill hi Brazil, with preparation, spinning, and weaving machinery. John Hetherington, Manchester, contract for £400,000 for artificial silk machinery.