RECORD STEEL OUTPUT
(Bfitigb Official Wireleis.)
British Industry
(Beceived 14, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 12. The production of pig iron for September reached the highost daily rate in17 years, and tho ohtp.ut of steel ingots and eastings created a new record. A quantity of 726,600 tons of pig jron was produced, agaiust 650,000 tons during September 1936 and 1,163,000 tons of steel against 1,027,000 tons in the same month in 1936. The output of steel for the flrst niue nionths pf 1937 at 9,548,300 tons is the highest ever achieved in the same period, and is 931,000 tons up on last year. Tho record steel production is aciMniipmiied by a large increase in typical nnishcd producta, as for exaraple the ■lieots nsod in motor-cars, etc. These ro ur _l por ceut. compared with last year, and plates for shipbuildiug, etc., AHl>£j&4i£&f Uttfc ' ' ^1,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 18, 14 October 1937, Page 5
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