STEEL PRODUCTION
ACTIVITY IN BRITISH INDUSTRY (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, January 7. The growth of steel production at Scunthorp, in Lincolnshire, close to an ironstone field, which is estimated to contain about 468,000,000 tons, resulted in an increase in employment in the district of 54 per cent, in the last five years. Local works are producing steel at the rate of 1,000,000 tons per annum, representing about 10 per cent, of the national production. The output has doubled in the last three years, and the production .of pig iron has risen correspondingly. The population of the district is rising rapidly, and last year 2,000 new houses were erected.
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Evening Star, Issue 22232, 9 January 1936, Page 9
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111STEEL PRODUCTION Evening Star, Issue 22232, 9 January 1936, Page 9
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