SHIP BUILDING

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 87, 10 October 1927, Page 12

SHIP BUILDING

« ■ ■ , MOTOR EXCEEDS STEAM NEW CONSTRUCTION FIGURES " For the first time Lloyd's returns of motor shipbuilding tonnage, under construction throughout the world, exceeds the steam tonnage. In Danzig, Denmark, France, Holland, and Italy the gap betwpen the two is a wide one, thesfigures being 561,135 tons of motor-ships and 152,035 tons of steamers. In the world, motor tonnage building amounts to 1,459,----595 tons and steamers to 1,366,809 tons. In Great Britain and Ireland motor tonnage at 627,700 tons equate 82.8 per cent: of steam tonnage building. The world's figures of motor-ships under construction include one of about 33,000 tons, nine, between 15,000 and 24,000 tons, 17 between 10,000 and. 15,000, and 84 between 6000 and 10,000. Tonnage building in Great Britain and Ireland, totals 1,300,388 tons, which is over 500,000 tons more than that in ApriL The tonnage on which work was suspended at the end of June amounted only to 8745 tons, as compared with 77,600 tons a year ago. These totals, although the highest since September, 1924, are still 500,000 tons below the average tonnage building in 1913. . Tonnage launched during the second quarter of this year shows an increase of 140,708 tons over that for the preceding quarter, but tonnage commenced shows a decrease of 142,727' tons. This figure is' always important as showing the amount of work available for the immediate future. The total world's tonnage building— 2,340,545 tons—shows the good increase of 271,000 tons over the previous quarter, but this. is still over 600,000 tons below the pre-war record of 1913. Old hats, left behind at the shop when a new one is bought, are put to many uses, the majority being torn up and used i as padding for suits and .other things.