GERMAN ORDERS DIVERTED.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 734, 6 January 1915, Page 3

GERMAN ORDERS DIVERTED.

The Germars have been very severe competitors in English railway locomotives and rolling stock, and on the outbreak of the war valuable orders were in their hands; some of these have been distributed among various British engineers. Makers of light constructional works are busy on War Office orders, and there is a big demand for corrugated sheets for Army purposes. The Government embargo on spelter has been removed, and large quantities are now reaching the district from the United Stales. Manufacturers of barbed wire have immense Government orders on their books, and tbs suspension of German competition in the general wire trade ia resulting in large orders being diverted. Useful orders for tubes for the camps and training grounds now in, course of construction have been received by local makers, and many orders for light Btamping have been placed in the city and district which have previously been executed in Germany. One of the Birmingham engineering umieitaKings has received an order for lathes for turning shells. ' The bed of the largest has a length of 122 ft. In Tipton one txceptionally large order has been given for pumps of various sizes, which in normal times would have gone to Germany, and in Dudley another, amounting to many thousands of pounds, for new machinery for the production of engineering sections previously imported from Germany.