STEEL AND IRON INDUSTRY
REVIVAL IN BRITAIN [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS] RUGBY, November Evidence of the growing business ‘ activity which promises‘well for a continued recovery in the next period,'"' accumulates.. News has reached Swan--sea of plans to reopen the Curnfeliii • tin plate works, which have .been: idle. for years. It is understood thjrtplant will be employed in the manufacture of steel cases for the carriage -i of fish in place of the wooden now in use. It is also considered. pro , -’J bable that Bryngwyn steel works ihp South Wales which have been qlosed for six years will begin work ;agaiu;;\.
shortly. - ■ At Monkton, near Jarrow, in;Dup;;; ham, there is a proposal to constructnew coke ovens, by-product and coal?.! cleaning plant at a cost of a quartet;'; 1 of a million pounds, which will use-/, about 200,000 tons of coal annually. X ; One of the works at Middlesborough?;; which has just booked a.single order*; for 35,000 tons of steel, has itfrA creased its earnings by 18 per cent;since 1931, and is employing 50 pd? . cent. more.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1935, Page 7
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175STEEL AND IRON INDUSTRY Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1935, Page 7
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