BRITISH INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1938, Page 10

BRITISH INDUSTRY

CONTRACTS FOR OVERSEAS

Information received by the British Trade Cpmmissioner in New Zealand of recent contracts secured by British firms for overseas include the following:— .

Turbine power installation for East London, South Africa; and Diesel railcars, and 41 six-wheeled heavy goods lorries for the South African Railways. Norwegian owners have placed an order for a cargo motor-ship of 9500 tons and about 420 ft in length, to be laid down at the Wallsehd shipyard. This is the first order, apart from naval work, which has been booked on the Tyne for several months. Slonskie Linie Autobusowe, operating bus services in Krakow, Poland, and the surrounding district, have placed an order for five single-deck buses equipped for left-haftid steering. Railway contracts include supplies for Egyptian State Railways amounting to £ 13,000; 36 wagons and carriages for Kenya and Uganda Railways; three loco boilers for Uruguay; 50 goods wagons for Nigeria; tank wagons for Mysore State Railways; a railway weighbridge for Peru; steel bridge work for Indian railways at Rawal Pindi.

What is believed to be the largest single order for coal washing plant ever received in the United Kingdom has been placed by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ltd., of London, with a Manchester firm of engineers. The order has been placed on behalf of the Kailan Mining Administration, which op.crates a group of coal mines situated near Tientsin. The order is for a complete coal washery to deal with 500 tons of coal an hour, and will involve the shipment to China of 2000 tons of steelwork and machinery.