SCRAP TOOL STEEL

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 9

SCRAP TOOL STEEL

POSSIBLE EXPORT TO

BRITAIN

At the request of the Factory Controller, Mr. G. A. Pascoe, the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation has promoted an inquiry through provincial manufacturers' associations, into the amount of scrap tool steel which may be available for export to the United Kingdom.

In his letter to the federation, Mr. Pascoe said that he had been informed there was a probable market in the United Kingdom for scrap tool steels of the high speed and carbon varieties. It would be understood, Mr. Pascoe said, that there were many tools, such as drills, reamers, and lathes which reached the stage when they were no longer of use for the purpose for which they had been obtained.

"I feel that if an appeal were made to all those using such tools, having yields of a certain amount of scrap of no further value, to save them and be prepared to hand them over to a central depot from where the Government would arrange to ship them to the United Kingdom, a good response would be met."

Generally, the letter continued, individual yields would be small, but in the aggregate reasonable tonnages over a period should be available.