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BUSINESS
A Feature which Hauliers will Find Helpful in Estimating and Anticipating Chances for Obtaining Contracts
GENERALLY,. trade reports from Uan. over the country show that a steady increase is being maintained and is likely to continue, which is equivalent to stating that haulage business, broadly speaking, is likely to improve and continue to improve.
Yorkshire.
It is reported that there is a fair amount of business in the boot and shoe factories in Leeds and districts. Several concerns are busy producing goods for the summer season. The figures of employment in the wool tettile centres show a steady increase.
It is again emphasized that the razorblade business is still improving, many manufacturers having to enlarge their premises in order to cope with the orders that they have. Constructionalengineering concerns in Middlesbrough are busy. A new factory is to be opened in Sheffield by a German organization for making cutlery.
Lancashire.
The building trades in the principal centres in Lancashire are improving, with corresponding hopes of better demands for timber, bricks, cement, ballast, etc.
Makers of `household linens, rayon goods, raincoats and umbrellas in the Manchester area are reported to be busy. The cotton factories are only just holding their own, but it is expected that better times will arrive so soon as prices uf raw material and conditions of labour are in a more settled state.
The chemical factories of Widnes and St. Helens and in the neighbourhood are a little busy, especially on ascetic acids, wood-distillation products and charcoal. Road transport will be required here. Midlands.
Boot and shoe factories in Northampton and Leicester are finding business fairly steady. The wet weather has found the weak spots in a good many people's shoes and the abstention from buying has thus been stopped. Better conditions are expected in Kettering and in Wellingborough, too, when the labour dispute is settled (as it may be when these words appear in print).
There is a steady. if slow, growth of business in the Nottingham lace fee tories, whilst reports from Leicester are favourable. Makers of fancy underwear and of knitted goods are busy.
The pottery trade is now definitely improving. Employment is increasing and orders are being received on an extensive scale. It is anticipated that the improvements will be maintained.
Generally speaking, reports from the majority of trades in the Midlands confirm that the quiet and steady improvement to which reference has lately been made in these columns is likely to he maintained and even accelerated. Motor and cycle manufacturers are busy, and building and contracting is more active.
The Grand Union Canal is to be widened between Warwick and Birmingham. J. and F. Wootton,'Ltd., is to build 34 houses on the Coltham Road Estate, to the order of Short Heath Urban District Council. A. M. Griffiths and Sons, Ltd., of Wolverhampton, is to build 62 houses for Wolverhampton Town Council.
J. Harper and Sons, of Blackheath, are to erect 42 houses for Rowley Regis Council.
South Wales.
There is a little better business moving in anthracite coals and patent fuels. The re-opening of the steel works at Port Talbot has improved business there, whilst tin-plate factories are a little busier.
London and Home Counties.
A. D. Jackson and Sons .(Contractors), Ltd., of Southend-on-Sea, is to erect a new school at Hornchurch for Essex Educational Committee. Messrs. Goodey and Sons, of Dunmow, have received a contract from Dunmow Rural District Council to build some houses at Takeley. •