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WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS
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A Feature Which Hauliers Will Find Helpful in Estimating and Anticipating Chances for Obtaining Contracts
CONDITIONS generally are not so promising this week de they were last week. The building trade is slack, and related industries, such as those of timber and brick making, are correspondingly quiet.
Timber exports are not expected to pick up until the conditions governing trade with Russia in the forthcoming season are settled, whilst coal is also quiet.
Rayon factories report increased activity. The iron and steel trade is looking for a tariff, but it does not anticipate that a duty will have any beneficial effect before August, even if it be imposed at once.
Northumberland and Durham.
Business in this area is quiet. There is little activity in the coal trade and little more in shipping or iron and steel. Clarke Chapman and Co., of Gateshead, has received the contract for the deck machinery for the sister ship of the "Monarch of Bermuda," and other contracts for the vessel are likely to be placed in this district. Robert Stephenson and Co., of Darlington, has received orders for two locomotives.
Yorkshire.
There is a little uneasiness in the woollen districts, because of notices concerning proposed reductions in wages. It is,. however, expected to blow over and, generally speaking, most of the mills are steadily engaged. The iron and steel industry is quiet. In Sheffield the cutlery section is busy, also those concerns which supply materials to motorcar manufacturers, as well as makers of electrical apparatus.
Generally speaking, it will be some time before the iron and steel industry E413 is really active, although a few men are being re-engaged each week in the heavy branches. It is anticipated that considerable demands for railway materials will occur shortly. In Hunslet a blast furnace with a capacity of 1,000 tons per week, closed since July, has just been restarted, and another is being prepared. Bakewell Rural District Council is inquiring into the suitability of a site at Eyam for the construction of a reservoir.
Lancashire.
Business in cotton yarn is quiet, but that in cloth is improving slowly but steadily. The Rayon factories report firm business, hut no marked increase. An optimistic tone prevails. The paper mills in Manchester are booked well ahead, and the Waterproof Paper Co., of Knutsford, is extending its mills. The leather business is not quite so good as reported last week. Orders are, as a rule, for small parcels. In Maccles
field a German concern of silk weavers is, we understand, commencing work.
The Midlands.
Most of the industries in the Midlands appear to be waiting on the imposition of tariffs, or for the improvements which, it is anticipated, tariffs already imposed will bring about. In Nottingham and Leicester, for instance, whilst there is considerable activity in the lace and hosiery industry, better business is expected when stocks of imported materials have been cleared. The boot and shoe industry in the Northampton and Leicester areas is quiet.
In Birmingham the hardware trades are stagnant, chiefly, it is said, owing to the reluctance of people to buy. The iron and steel industry in this area is quiet generally. The glass factories expect to start to be busy at the end of this month.
South Wales.
The reports from this area are indeed depressing. Even the plate industry, which, hitherto, has been a bright spot, now reports a falling off in the demand for galvanized and tinplate, only the black-plate and sheet section showing any improvement. The coal industry in this area is subject to the same general depression AZ is ruling throughout the country.
Scotland.
In general, a slight improvement in trading conditions is reported from Scotland, although it is uneven and patchy. In the iron and steel industry prospects of resumption of work on the giant Cunarder are the source of whatever optimism prevails. Makers of black steel sheet are doing steady business in the lighter gauges of this material.