NEW ZEALAND CONTRACTS
PLACED WITH BRITISH FIRMS VALUED AT £140,000 (From Oub Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, Nov. 24. Contracts worth £140,000 have been placed with British engineering and steel manufacturing firms, it is announced. The largest order—foi the supply of shunting locomotives valued at £l3,l2s—goes to a London firm. A Manchester firm receives a £12,000 order for oil circuit breakers, and commercial tractors worth morp than £9250 will be supplied by an Oxford firm Other contracts, for the supply of steel axles, spring steel, brake fittings, plywood roofs, steel channels, and fittings, go to firms at Middlesbrough (£12,866), Sheffield (£10,136), Crayford (£8745), Motherwell (£7301), West Bromwich (£6029), London (£6931), Glasgow (£5310), Rugby (£5036) and Scunthorpe (£5165). Record orders, valued at more than £1,500,000, have been placed in Great Britain in the last six months by the New Zealand Government.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23687, 20 December 1938, Page 9
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