BRITISH INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS
Newcastle-on-Tyne is increasing shipments of coal to Canada and the West Indies and is doing good business with Scandinavia. ni Thomas Ward and Sons. Sheffield, have secured the contract from the War Office for safety razors and blades for the British Army, this being the first time since the safetv razor was invented that a Sheffield firm has been given the order. ... , . The.number of .idle ships on the Clyde is being rapidly reduced—many being sold for breaking-up purposes, and others disposed of for trading under foreign flags—this being a necessary preliminary to the increase iii shipbuilding which is now assured. Lancashire engineering firms state that more inquiries are being received now than for some time past, and more contracts have been placed
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18065, 17 April 1933, Page 10
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125BRITISH INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18065, 17 April 1933, Page 10
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