MOTOR SHIPS.
INCREASING TONNAGE. LLOYDS REGISTER RETURNS. Received January 7, a.m. LONDON, Jan. 6. The sustained development of motor ships is recorded in Lloyd's Quarterly Register, showing that the world s shipyards are at present constructing 924,000 tons of shipping fitted with internal combustion engines as compared With 1,631,000 tons equipped with steam engines. • j Germanv, Scandinavia and Holland are building 477,000 tons of motor ships as compared with only IM.OOU tons of steam ships. British yards at December 31 were constructing a total tonnage of 1,297,000, which is 98,0G0 tons below last year's figures. —Renter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 1210, 7 January 1925, Page 5
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