Haulage Opportunities
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AMONGST the heavier industries, which do not, perhaps, make a considerable direct demand upon road transport, but which, in their increasing activity, impfove the prosperity of the districts in which they are carried on, the following call for special mention this week :—Scottish construe:tional engineering and boiler manufacture; steel making in Lancashire, iron and steel production in Yorkshire and along the north-east coast ; engineering in the Midlands and ship repel ng on Merseyside and Tyneside.
In Birmingham the number 41± unemployed is less than it has b n for nearly four years. The first new blast furnace at the Corby works of Messrs. Stewars and Lloyds, that enormous underta ng for which preparations have been going forward for 18 months or so, ha been lighted, whilst it is expected that a second and a larger one will be opened in the autumn.
Cotton and Wool.
Generally speaking, the cotton and woollen industries may still be said to lag behind the rest of the country's trades • in the improvement which is taking place. This week, the cotton trade, however, shows some signs of a little acceleration.
The export business is better, there being improvement in inquiries and in orders from India, South America, the continent of Europe and the
Dominions. This, of course, is important to hauliers, as it affects those who are principally engaged between the docks and mills. In addition, however, orders for materials for home consumption are increasingly numerous and there is a fair demand for yarns for hosiery.
Drapery, Hosiery and Clothing.
Factories producing rayon yarn are active. A big increase in the demand for haulage from wholesalers in the drapery and clothing line is expected to commence next week. The controlling factor will be the weather, and a prolonged spell of the sunshine which prevails at the time when these notes are being written will considerably in-, crease the demand.
Business in the clothing industry is improving, especially in the direction of such ready-to-wear articles as flannel trousers, sports jackets and raincoats. The hosiery trade remains good. The bathing-costume department is busy and lace factories are active.
Boots and Shoes: Leather.
Some temporary delay which, at the time of writing, is being experienced by hoot and shoe manufacturers, is expected to result in a tremendous rush of orders and a correspondingly intense demand for haulage facilities beginning at the end of this week and the opening of next week. The demand for leather is steady, but is likely to improve so soon as it is realized that prices are not going to fall.
Hardware.
There is the probability of a propaganda scheme being launched to encourage the consumption of homecanned fruits. If this move be successful, it will obviously benefit road haulage in many districts.
Already business in tin-plate from the Swansea district is improving and the demand for this material is fairly steady throughout the country. The intense activity in the building trade is favourably affecting the demand for builders' ironmongery, rainwater goods, locks, nails and similar hardware materials.
The Sheffield cutlery trade is in good fettle, especially factories concerned with the making of knives, scissors, hollow-ware, safety razors and blades for them.
Timber and Building.
• Large quantities of timber are now coming forward and the docks are • likely to be busy for months to come.
Important and extensive building works contemplated in the near future include a college at Aberystwyth to cost £500,000; swimming baths at Blackpool, £105,000; a cattle market and schools at Bridgwater, £42,000; eight schools in Buckinghamshire, a like amount ; a college in Coventry, 2142,000; an infirmary at Salisbury, £S5,000; and a school in Worcester, 223,000.
Actual contracts placed include the following major items :—County offices for West Sussex C.C., to be erected in Chichester at a cost of £61,000 by
Messrs. R. 3. Barwick, Market Street, Dover ; a school at Chingford (210,897) by Messrs. T. J. Bailey and Sons, Chelmsford.; another on the Colnwick Hill Estate (234,135) by Harper and Green, Ltd., Gedling Road, Carlton, Nottingham.
Messrs. A. H. Harris and Sons, Derby Road, Delarehay, Ripley, Derby, are to build 56 houses in Nottingham Road, Ilkeston (£18,789) ; T. Bates and Son, Ltd., Coventry, 150 houses and flats on the Movers Lane Housing Estate, Barking (243,900) ; W. H. Gaze and Sons, Ltd., 23, High Street, Kingstonon-Thames, two blocks of dwellings on the Haggerston Road site, Shoreditch (£20,083) ; M. J. Gleason, Ltd., 822, Chesterfield Road, Sheffield, 116 houses on Moss Lane housing estate, Macclesfield.
Messrs. Brewer and Sons, West Wickham, are to erect 90 houses on the Ringlestone estate, Maidstone: (226,031) ; Simms, Son and Cook. Ltd., Nottingham, 150 houses at Church Lane, Moston, for Manchester Corporation. Bt. Helens T.C. proposes to erect 196 houses in Grange Park. and 64 in Rivington Road and Gaskill Street, by direct labour. The total cost of the scheme will be somewhat less than £100,000.
The contract for 1,000 tons of granite chippings for Folkestone T.C. was awarded to BrIacadares, Ltd., Thames House, Westminster, London, S.W.1., at 12s. 11d, per ton for 1-in: chippings and 13s. 11d. for 1-in, chippings. The contract for the supply of granite chippings to Sandwich went to Pence Quarries, Ltd., at 15s. 6d. per ton.
Motherwell Higher Grade R.C. School is to be reconstructed at a cost of 244,000. New brickworks are to be erected in Motherwell (Motherwell Brick Co., Ltd., 29, St. Vincent Place, Glasgow), at a cost of £7,000.• Coal and Coke.
Thedemand for both coal and coke for industrial purposes is well maintained and, so long as business in general continues to improve, is likely to remain so. The outlook is quite hopeful.
London Docks.
The following is the number of ships arriving at the London docks, what ves and jetties named, from May 25June 2 inclusive :—
Domes :—King George V, 8; Royal Albert, 12; Royal Victoria., 7; Surrey Commercial, 6; West India, 1; East India, 3; South-west India, 3; Tilbury, 7; TilburyStage, 3 ; Millwall, 2; London, 8. WHARVES :—Hays, 7 ; Middleton's, 1; Mark Brown's, 1; Regent's Canal, 2; Tilbury Jetty, 1.