FOURTH EDITION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 349, 9 May 1928, Page 13

FOURTH EDITION

British Industry Better Than in 1914 steel best in world SHIP-BUILDING SUPREMACY n-.iilcd PA. — By Telegraph — Copyright) Recd. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Tuesday. The Committee of industry and Trade to-day published the fifth of the six volumes on its researches. The book deals with the iron and steel, engineering, electrical, manufacturing, and shipbuilding industries. In maintaining that in no country in the world is the steel produced o£ so „ o od a quality as the British article, is admitted that the British practice may he behind that o£ particular Conttnental countries, but both in ordinary iron and steel and in special kinds the British article holds the field for quality so that it is suggested that it would not necessarily be advantageous for British manufacturers to establish in this country very large plants for mass production o£ common qualities of steel products. It is declared that the position of industry is improving, the committee being convinced that his country has „ot back to the normal state of steady increase that obtained before 1914. It is noted that the motor industry is improving, and that this country is likely to lead the world in the production of motor cvcles, the only serious competitor being the nited States. Britain also leads in pedal cycles, Germany coming next. Great progress has been made since the war in electrical manufacturing. The output of cables has been greater since the war than before, and exports of telegraph and telephone instruments and apparatus has increased tenfold since 1913. The export of electric lamps hhas more than doubled ia the same period. In the committee’s opinion we have regained our supremacy in ship buildiug. The tonnage launched In 1927 rose to nearly 54 per cent. c£ the world’s output.