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Bright Prospects for
Industry. Good Business in Cutlery. BC0172 in the Motor Trade
Woollen Manufacturers Active. Many Orders for Clothing and Drapery. Leather Demand Steady
I N all branches of industry there is greater confidence than has been the case _ for a long time. Reports from Sheffield show that cutlery manufacturers are doing big business in the
better-class goods. The Northumberland coal trade is active, whilst in the motor industry in the Midlands it is difficult to cope with the demand.
This statement also applies to several branches of the steel trade. A great number of the woollen towns of Yorkshire are well employed. Inquiries for cotton goods are numerous, and in the drapery and clothing line orders are bigger than for many years past.
Scotland.
Conditions generally are well maintained and shipyards are active.
Aberdeen E.C. has sent plans, etc., to the education department for additions and alterations to the Walker Road School, Torry, the cost being estimated at £23,900. Airdrie T.C. is to proceed with the erection of public baths. It is also proposed to build 294 houses on the Gallica estate, Airdrie. Angus C.C. is considering a 10-year building scheme.
Orders for ships have recently been received by Barclay, Curie and Co., Glasgow. Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow, and Messrs. D. and W. Henderson, Glasgow.
Port-Glasgow T.C. is to build 48 houses, costing £16,200. East Lothian C.C. is to erect 300 dwellings under the five-year plan, Stranraer T,C. 364, and Troon 100.
North-east Coast.
Makers of semi-finished steel in Middlesbrough are busy, equally those engaged in the production of billets. The coal trade is fairly good.
Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Newcastle, have received an order for a motor liner. We understand that the central marine engine works of W. Gray and Co., Hartlepool, have received an order to convert 11 more vessels to super-beat.
Wallsend T.C. has accepted the tender of 13all, Thomas and Lister, Ltd., Norton-on-Tees, at £21,000, for the erection of 84 houses in Archer Street, whilst tenders are also being received for a further 84 on the Holy Cross estate. South Shields T.C. is to obtain tenders for the construction of 500 houses at Tinton, and a start is soon to be made with a new £60,000 high school at West Harton.
Tynemouth T.C. is inviting tenders for building 216 houses on the Ridges estate. Messrs. W. and T. R. Milburn, 17, Fawcett Street, Sunderland, have prepared plans for a £12,000 hotel in Newcastle Road, Sunderland. At Stockton, Messrs. Lane and Fox, Southfield Crescent, Stockton, are starting work on the erection of 73 houses.
Yorkshire.
Thomas Ward and Sons, Ltd., a wellknown cutlery concern in Sheffield, has received two large contracts, one for the supply of safety razors and blades required by the entire British Army, this year, and the other for razors and blades for the Irish Free State Army, during 1934. Most cutlery houses are busy.
Rolling mills at Sheffield are running to full capacity. Messrs. Dunford and Elliott (Sheffield) are busy on the manufacture of bicycles, 250 being dispatched daily.
Doncaster T.C. is submitting plans for Park council school, estimated to cost £29,700. One hundred houses are to be built in Parkinson Road, Hopwood Lane and Gibraltar Road, Halifax. Leeds T.C. has adopted a housing scheme to cost £12,000,000.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
'Barrow has an order from the Admiralty for a new submarine. Shiprepair yards on Merseyside are busy. Carnmell, Laird and Co. has several large liners docked for repairs, whilst Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks are completing a number of important jobs. Cheadle and Gatley U.D.C. is to erect a senior school at Woods Lane, Cheadle, and Cheshire E.C. plans to build a school at Bebington. Manchester T.C. is to borrow £20,000 for important building work.
Midlands.
The boot and shoe trade in Northampton, although somewhat patchy, shows signs of improvement. The hardware and hollow-ware industries continue to make good progress, particularly as regards home trade.
Builders are going ahead with housing schemes as the result of the dry weather.
Wales.
The demand for anthracite coal continues, this remark applying particularly to Swansea and Port Talbot. The tin-plate market is steady.
Caernarvon T.C. is to ask the 13.13.C. to establish the North Wales wireless studio at Caernarvon. An hotel, to cost £57,000, is to be erected at Rest Bay, Porthcawl.
West Country.
There is more activity in the leather trade, although individual orders are to meet immediate needs. English and wet-salted bends are steady.
The old Royal United Hospital, Bath, is to be reconstructed as a technical college at a cost of £24,979.
East Anglia.
There are now definite signs of recovery in the boot and shoe trade and a number of good orders is on hand. Forehoe (Norfolk) R.D.C. is to erect 300 houses on the Bowthorpe estate.
London and Home Counties..
Producers and distributors of leather are experiencing a satisfactory demand for salted bends. Business in both pinned and rough bellies is good.
It is proposed to extend the Royal Bucks Hospital, Aylesbury, at a cost of £30,000. Bournemouth T.C. has passed plans for 99 houses and bungalows to be built .by private enterprise ; also new showrooms and offices in Christchurch Road, Boscombe, for the Bournemouth Gas and Water Co. The council is also considering the Grand Parade scheme,
Ealing is now to have seven new schools in Greenford and .Northolt, to cost £136,202. Eastbourne T.C. is considering the Grand Parade scheme, estimated to cost £34,000. Swindon hopes to borrow £60,000 for extensions to the town hall.