20,000 MORE SILOS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 50, 8 May 1942, Page 3

20,000 MORE SILOS

TO STORE BRITAIN'S CATTLE FODDER AND SAVE SHIPS Twenty thousand silos; for cattle fodder is the latest contribution of Britain's: concrete makers to the Avar effort. They are now at work upon this colossal contract. Farmers all over Britain have already put up silos; manufacturers of preserves are following suit with silos to store their Avaste materials and turn them into feeding stuffs to relieve the strain on the Empire's shipping. To-day more concrete is being used on Britain's farms than eA r er before. Buildings in it, from barns to poultry houses, are being run up, and it is being used for Avater tanks, fence posts, flooring, cattle troughs, guards, and stalls, as wel'l as asbestos cement for roofing sheds, rabbit hutches and, even buckets. The concrete industry is also helping the war effort with aerodrome rumvays, some of which need 60,000 square yards of material at a time, and thousands of concrete huts are being set up for the Service departments and for the housing or Avar Avorlsers and the homeless. All constructional repair Avork on railway and AAater tunnels is carried out in concrete, sometimes Avith complete pre-cast arches. Cellars of damaged houses have been concreted and: made into Avater storage tanks. Concrete raihvay sleepers and pit props for coal mines are replacing imported timber. Holloaaconcrete blocks are being used not only for building but for air raid protection. The upper works of ships 'live also been given concrete protection, and, following upon the construction of 100 concrete barges by the Admiralty, the first oceangoing liner of 2000 tons deadweight has been successfully launched. Machine gun posts, air raid shelters, oil storage tanks, defence barriers, telegraph poles, groynes, buoys and sinkers for moorings and even anchors are all being made of concrete for the AA r ar.