SLUICE GATES IN EGYPT
(Brifciab Official \V ireleas.)
Big Contract for Britain
RUGBY,~Feb. 12. ; Jl British engineering firm, Messrs Ransomes and Rapier, of Tpswich, has ieecured from the Egyptian Government ia £210,000 contract for the construc* jtion of sluice gates on ihe new Moham«xnad Aly barrage, which is being built jat a cost of 250,000, at the junetion |cf the Nile, north of Gairo. Ninetyjfonr pairs of sluice gates and six power-operated machines of special deMgn for use with the gates are to be built. The work will extend. over three years and begin. .within, the. next f ew; moajbti. " 1
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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