CONTRACTS SECURED

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 12

CONTRACTS SECURED

The British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand; has been advised of recent contracts; secured for overseas by British engineers,l' ship' builders, and manufacturers, as follows:—

• India.—Oil:electric double-bogie railcars, ■Madras and■ Southern Mahratta Railways, i Steatn. tug; and teak log carrier, to be built at Paisjey.. Alternator set for Delhi r Electric Supply and Traction Company. Insulators and lines for Madras Govern- ' ment. Diesel locomotives for Lahore.

Argentina.—Supply and erection of 14 steel bridge, spans; railway fishplates and fastenings.- ' ~ - Chile.—Sack-making machinery, £35,000. Brazil. —Electrification of Central Brazil Jfaiiwa.v, £3,000,000. .Contract-awarded to JNletropolitan-Vickers... after competition with six American, also German, Italian, asid Swiss companies: ■ • ■ : 'Egypt.—Steel bars and tools for Egyptian Government.

-China.; —Ten locomotives for Nanking •and Hangchow-Kiangsham Railways. . Palestine.—Forty 12-ton railway wagons. South Africa.-rEoiirteen lifts for Johannesburg Postal Offices.'. Boilers . I £130,000) for .Pretoria municipal power scheme. Three heavy-capacity excavators - for. ■■.United.. Government. Pernianent-way i equipment, £37,000. . ~ , '~ ..Burma^-r-Nine ; vertical Diesel engines arid'pfrmps for oil'witli daily capacity of 630.000 gallons per engine. Holland.—Single order for 72 motorcycles.

Australia.—Contract for aeroplanes for Commonwealth Government; value £345,000.

Soviet Russia. —Machine tools, £22,400; railway wagon 100 ft long and load capacity of 200 tons.

Peru.—Three S-Wheeled coupled bogie locomotives for Peruvian Andes Railways.

New Zealand.—Telephone \ equipment. £3250. \-.A.'-- < .■:;;.:. y. -.• ■

Other pontracts.—Two passenger and cargo, steamers for erection and- dismantling for transport; to carry forty passeng-ers-each.l.; Sugar- boiling -equipment.