“CITY” OF STEEL
TO REPLACE A VILLAGE ' jfei . .• . . UORBY (Northants), June 19. : A,, .small army of men are working ]- •" uay and night,on the new £3,300,000 '.Mtfl'wrk* here which, in less than [ two years, will convert this village v.V: into'oae.of the largest steel “cities” j ip Tie »ew, * * city ’' of steel lies in the Ml heart of 2(5,000 acre* of iron *ore tie-1 wblih is estimated to have a \' x ' Yield of 500.000,000 tons. I Surh is the speed at which tins j fer of steel is going up that in | %% ‘«ii weeks a railway cutting nearly half a mile long and 30ft, deep has || been completed. Mechanics and others have carried on their task at . night by Hood-lamps. More than 2000 unemployed have ffi ' firand work in clearing tho site for f this great steelworks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 5
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135“CITY” OF STEEL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 5
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