MORE MOTOR-SHIPS
BRITISH BUILDERS BUSY British Official Wireless A . RUGBY, Sunday. considerable increase in the cento *sK° n m °t-or vessels in the Brito.’ Slll pyards is reported. There are 2SO tons ;S ned vessels - totalling 1,760,000 gross, on order. Of these 209 are *onnap and P ass enger ships, the gross va, Which is 150,000 more than sinT 5* se in Jul y* 1927 - tootofu-* 1 ' 6 beginning of this year 99 ’ s btps of 60.000 tons gross have of 192? n *u leted ’ wh ereas for the whole oV e numbe r was 137 and the shin s ni The number of motorhalf , in commission in the first this year is a record.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 396, 3 July 1928, Page 9
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