TRACTORS AND IMPLEMENTS
BRITAIN NEEDS £2O MILLION WORTH ANNUALLY (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20. British agriculture will need tractors and farm machinery worth £20,000,000 f early, according to the National 'armors’ Union report on the position caused by the cessation of lend-lease. The union points out that agricultural demands, if met by British manufacturers, would much to rehabilitate the British engineering industry. The agricultural industry has been left in a position in which it is faced with much restricted supplies of implements and machines at a time when a sustained effort for food production is required. The provision of adequate amounts of types of machinery at prices economic both to the manufacturer and the farmer has become a matter of urgent concern.
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Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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123TRACTORS AND IMPLEMENTS Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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