MOTOR SHIPS
GROWING IN FAVOUR. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. The sustained development of motor ships is recorded in Lloyd’s Quarterly Register. It shows that the world’s shipyards are at present constructing 924,000 tons of shipping fitted with internal combustion engines, compared with 1,531,000 tons equipped with steam engines. Germany, Scandinavia, and Holland are building 447,000 tons of motor ships, compared with only 143,000 tons of steamers. The British yards at December 31 wore constructing a total of 1,297,000 tons, which is 98,000 tons behw last year’s figure.—Reuter,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19373, 8 January 1925, Page 7
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