STEEL AND IRON
INTENSIFIED DRIVE FOR SCRAP IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 12. Britain is to be swept from end to end of steel and scrap iron, large or small. An intensified drive will, it is hoped, yield 400,000 tons a week. The Ministry of Works, announcing the campaign, said it would fall roughly under three heads. First, there will be a national survey of all idle iron and steel in lots of over three tons in any one place. The disclosing of such metal will be compulsory. Secondly, there will be a clearance of local dumps comprising lots of less than three tons. Thirdly, there will be acceptance of the collection of railings. Scrap under the first heading includes disused pit head gear, bridges, tracks, and factory machinery. The Ministry will begin sweeps of dumps county by county almost at once. The Ministry calls on householders for scrap “from food tins to broken mangles and bicycles.” Mr G. M. Carter, a business man from Newcastle, has been appointed director of demolition and recovery.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 4
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176STEEL AND IRON Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 4
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