BRITISH YARDS BUSY
ORDERS FOR NEW SHIPS RESULTS OF SUBSIDY SCHEMES STEADY WORK FOR MANY MONTHS (British Official Wireless] RUGBY, 9th May. A remarkable increase in the volume of orders for new merchant ships has taken place since the Government subsidy was announced on 28th March. The two-hundredth merchant vessel projected under this scheme was provisionally ordered yesterday and practically every shipyard in Britain available for building seagoing ships is assured of steady work for the next 18 to 24 months.
The Board of Trade has decided that no more applications can be entertained in the immediate future
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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