COAL PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN
Drive To Increase Output
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY’’, April 29.
Half the miners of Britain who were unemployed at the outbreak of war are now at work as a result of the Government’s drive to increase the peace output of 240,000,000 tons yearly by 40,000,000 tons. The chairman of the Goal Production Council, Lord Portal, is touring British coalfields to speed up production to meet the enormous world demand created by the blockade of German exports, which were 24,000,000 tons a year before the war. Poland was then exporting 14,000,000 tons. The British Navy cut off half these quantities.
France, Italy, South American countries, and overseas bunkering stations are seeking supplies, and inquiries are also coming from Canada, Portugal, Greece, Egypt, and Algeria. Italy lost 2,000.000 tons of German coal when the Rotterdam shipments ceased. She is now second only to France in buying from South Wales, and it is believed that she would take more if it was available.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 184, 1 May 1940, Page 9
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164COAL PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 184, 1 May 1940, Page 9
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