NEW BRITISH INDUSTRIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 2 May 1919, Page 4

NEW BRITISH INDUSTRIES.

C 0.000,000 FOB. VAST SCHEMES IN SOUTH WALES. Swansea. Vast industrial devcopment schemes entailing an expenditure of £6,000,----000 and introducing new industries to this district, are being undertaken. Tho largest is that o fthe Anglo-Per-sian Oil Company, who will pximp oil from tank steamers into large storage tanks, whence it will travel by pipelines to the refineries at Skewen. Baldwin's are making rapid strides in the specialised treatment of ore (which used practically to bo in German hands), and are about to erect bust furnaces. Borings for coal arc being made, and dye works are contemplated.

Plans to develop the mineral and the agricultural resources of tlie Gower Peninsula ,which stretches 19 miles from Swansea* and has valuable limestone and coal deposits'" are ready, and the Graigola Patent Fuel Company, tho largest in the world, is doubling ' its works. Extensions are taking place at other patent fuel works, and at steel, tinplate, and spelter works.

At Laudore new works have been erected to deal with zinc extractions, and the promoters' efforts have been crowned with success. This wrests another procews from Germany. Toy making and the manufacture of the highest, grades of steel are to be among Swansea's new industries.