BRITISH INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 12

BRITISH INDUSTRY

SHEPS AND ENGINES

SRDiERS FOR OVERSEAS

j.: "Evening Post," 18th January. :-• Reference was made in: a cablegram, pub'?}ished in the6e columns : yesterday to p Lloyd's register returns -of shipbuilding ■; for the last quarter of 1D29. These shoved ian increase in foundlings for the quarter :'. of over 227,000 tons for the corresponding ■; quarter of 1928. It was added that ''nearly 40 per cent, of the work in hand ■in British shipyards was'foreign business, 'or orders for. overseas. ■ In. its comment •on these returns, "The Times" was of that "the outlook for the British, industry is far from im:clouded," and that builders hoped the ;: worst period of the depression had passed. :,Latest advices received by the British :'Trade Commissioner in New.Zealand (Mr: li. A. Paish) on British' shipbuilding new ■business to 31st October makes an interesting footnote to the above Press ■i dispatch. Shipbuilding contracts secured M'lue and Baxter, Govan, from Levis Ferry, Quebec, two single-screw I- passenger "and motor-carrying ferry steami.ers. Wighanv Richardson Wallsend-on- ' Tyne, %-i& build for. Jphan Kasmussen • and Co.; Sandefjord (Sydhav Whaling Co. ■ and the Vestfold Whaling Co.) two motor\tankersj .one ~of 11,300 tons d\v. and an- ; other of. 9400 tons. These are in addition !to two other tankers, of which one is to be builfon ihe'Tyne and the other on the iClyde. i Sis cargo steamers, each of 8250 tons dwV are being built at Belfast by .Harland and Wolff for the Compagnie Transatlantiquc, of Paris. John Xewis and Sons, Aberdeen, are to build '■.-a vessel o£ 1600 tons deadweight for •service .between Australia and New Zealand, of R. \V\ ■ Lamb and Co., Sydney, .'jScw South Wales, and a cgllier of 500 ■;tons for R. W. Miller and Co., also of .-Sydney. . Sir- James Laing and Sons, Ltd., ' fcunderland and Jv L. Thompson and Sons, "Ltd., Sunderlaud, have each obtained an iorder for a cargo steamer, the former !'from Norwegian owners. . Snnderland ■■builders have TSceivedrfrom Mr. Alfred IfChristehscn, Copenhagen, an . order for a -cargo steamer of 3300 tons dw., to be :jdelivered early next year. The Government of' New Zealand have placed with ;.R. and'-.W. ■ PjiWthorn, Leslie, and Co., ,-'Hebbur'nkm4ryn.e, an - ; order for a salvage jtug. Norwegian owners have placed with Doxford and Sons, Sunderland, borders for five oil-tankers, in addition to two announced-recently. Lithgows, Ltd., ■'JPort Glasgott, have laid down two motor'"tankers, each of 13,500 tons dw., for West-Vfal-Larsen and Co., of Bergen. The ves'i sels, which will be propelled by twin-screw Harland B. and W. internal combusion ■engines aggregating 4000 h.p. are to be delivered in the first half of next year. 'George Brown and Co., Greenpek, are to '■'.build for Continental owners a cargo of 1000, tons' dw., -intended for i'b'erviqe between -London and the Coni'tinent. "'•' Railway -and other important engineering contracts obtained by British engineering firms and notified to the Overseas ;Trade Department were" two tank engines, two Garratt' locomotives (making locomotives), and 221 wagons of van;fous types !for Kenya and Uganda rail;Kvaysi' Ten motor-bus chassis', electrical Supplies for the New Zealand Government Railways and Post and Telegraph Departments respectively. Two brake locomotives for mountain work for the Sao Taulo Railway C 0.., Brazil; a first contract for ttve Madras- electrification system ot the Southern Indiau railways running into l£l2o 000 an order for rails ot £40(JU; 'electric accessories, £12,000, and '■ copper £15 000—all for the South Indian Bailways.. -Eight travelling.steam, cranes, for. ■BiieStfr^ifes-"Great Southern- -Railways.' Repair material and train liflhting equip-men-tv running into some-thousands ol round?; fpr. the EgypSian., State Railways. Ten compound' superheated locomotives for Buenos Aires Great Western Piailways. Tires for locomotives, axles, and wheels for South African Union Railways, in face of severe Continental competition, disr tributed oyer.-.a number of British firms. Twelve neW/fteiisn, 120 tons, locomotives (to be built-By Robert Stephenson, Dar•li'iston) for the -A-rgentire. Rhodesia •Railways have placed aioUO.OOO order for rolling.stock/'..;.;';.. . .;■ . ; New Zealanft business secured by British engineering fims includes electrical Supplies for: Auckland Transport Board; tad a new pumping plant for ; Hamilton Waterworks.- Two units each with a .capacity of 1000 tons a^veek,.for the^reen fcland 'Cemenf Co;,.. Houg. Kong.^Bridge wlifc-for Jitfja.' bridge, on the Nile. A Skct of £2,006,000 fi^ni the-Egyptian Government for raising the height ot the Dam on the Nile has been secured -by Norton Griffiths, Ltd., London. Contracts for electrical equipment ior 'the Rotterdam municipality and turbogenerators for the Netherlands Govern:«mt to cost £200,000 have been awarded !to British engineers. A plant for drying '•beefsugar, tp cost £40,000, has been contracted Vb* a Dudley £™ f. or the/ S r °^ e* (ObverntfW-'^A'WS I*'1*' A, turbine -unit, 75tt. M*> %, Saskatchewan. , , Britistf-firms also supply ..new post,e ag stamps for%e Turkish Government; telephone and other equipment (£64,000) to the Postmaster-General, Melbourne; electrte'lamps for the City,of Sydney; Diesel engine for Broken Hill mines, S.flOO,- - andiWJreless . instr.llatwns for .Bratislava and for Machnsh' Ostrau, in Crecliß-Slovakia. •