OVERSEAS BUSINESS
CONTRACTS TO BRITAIN
Contracts secured in January by British engineering, manufacturing, and shipbuilding firms for overseas are reported by the Department of Overseas Trade as follows:— Argentina: Seven Diesel-engined rail-cars; rails and fittings; 140 coal trucks. Australia: Four miles rails for Brisbane trains and rails and fishplates for Launceston trains. Belgian Congo: Six Garrett articulated locomotives. Burma: Fleet .of trolley buses for Rangoon. China: Railway material, £900,000, and signalling equipment. Chile: Railway plant. Denmark: Shipbuilding steel, £220.000; and steel strip, £4000. Egypt: 250 railway box trucks. India:' Elsctrienl equipment, £9025, for Tata Ironworks; passenger steamer tor pilgrim trade; railway crossings and switches; railway salt wagons; railway material, £62,000. I Lithuania: Railway brakes, £85,000. I Mexico: Diesel engined. locomotives. New Zealand: Two cargo vessels for Union Steam Ship Co.; transformers for Dunedin. and copper wire for Waimea Power Board. Palestine: Gas works for Tel Aviv. Soviet Russia: Floating dock. I South Africa: Twenty tube mills I for gold mines, and tube mills for cement.
Sudan: Railway rolling stock equipment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 12
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170OVERSEAS BUSINESS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 12
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