BRITISH ENGINEERING PROJECTS
In spite of economic difficulties wTucTi are world-wide, serious attention is being given in Great Britain to many important engineering schemes. Ono of those, is the construction of a shin canal between the Forth and the Clyde. Statistics have been placed before the Government with the object, of proving that the construction of such a canal would ■attract a profitable volume of traffic. Another important scheme is the construction of n railway tunnel beneath the Thames at Gravesend, with connections to the railway systems north and south of the river. The estimated cost of this funnel is ,66,000,000. Steps are nl'o bein" taken to reorganise the canal system of T.ondpn, and important proposals were recently brought forward by a Government Committee.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 26, 25 October 1921, Page 6
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124BRITISH ENGINEERING PROJECTS Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 26, 25 October 1921, Page 6
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