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Iron and Steel Industries A ctioe. Good Autumn Season for Lace. Building Boom Continues. New Factories Going Up MOST readers of The Commercial Motor will have learned that Guinness's are building a big factory at Park Royal, London. This important enterprise will bring a good deal of extra work for hauliers into that district, both during the erection of the premises and in connection with the manufacturing and , distributing processes which will follow when the brewery is completed and at work. About 100 acres of land are involved and several new roads are to be made as well as buildings erected. One of. the factors governing the selection of the site was the facility for road transport which the position offered.
That area of London has become most important considered from this same point of view. During the past six years no fewer than 250 new factories have been erected there. A similar development may shortly be expected in a new area, i.e., Millmarsh Lane, Brimsdown, about eight miles north of Liverpool Street Station on the L.N.E.R. Cambridge main line.
The iron and steel and engineering industries continue to be active. Structural steel makers in the Birmingham area are being pressed for deliveries. In the Glasgow area inquiries are more numerous than they have been for some time, and conditions in the black sheet industry are brisk.
On the north-east coast a concern of engineers has received a contract which will keep over 600 men occupied for the greater part of a year. The general engineering works in that district are a little brisker. In Birmingham, electrical engineers have plenty of orders in hand, whilst engineers in. Prescot and Warrington, Lancashire, have received some large oreers.
Cotton and Wool.
Uncertainty concerning the price ef raw material is again upsetting the textile industry. There is a fair demand for yarns for weaving and hosiery being experienced in Yorkshire, whilst so far as cotton is concerned, the most attractive feature is the persistency of inquiries from India. The home trade for cotton goods remains " set fair."
Drapery and Clothing.
Delivery of clothing and drapery goods for autumn trade will have commenced by this time. Beyond that a certain amount of activity is likely to prevail in connection with exhibitions and fashion displays, following which good orders are anticipated.
A good autumn season for the fancy lace trade is anticipated, especially in regard to tinsel lace, development in the manufacture of which is proceeding apace in Nottingham. In the Leicester area the most active factories are those which are making underwear for the autumn, and women's knitted dresses. Boots and Shoes. Leather.
Deliveries of football boots com menced this week. In addition, a good autumn season in better-grade shoes, in both men's and women's sec tions, is indicated. In the country areas of Northamptonshire work is in hand which will necessitate a fairly steady round of deliveries over the next two months.
The leather trade is somewhat quiet at the moment. Boot and shoe manufacturers appear to be working from hand to mouth in their acceptances of raw material, which means that, so far as hauliers are concerned, loads are small but fairly regular.
Pottery.
The pottery trade is good in all sections. Figures for export show that the month of July has broken records for some years past.
. Timber and Building.
The reports from the timber yards and docks are still as good as ever. The quantities of sawn building and joinery woods imported during July were much larger than for the corresponding month of the previous two years. The import of plywood during the month was nearly double that of the previous year.
So far as buildings are concerned, plans passed last month show an increase of 13.6 per cent, as compared with July of last year.
In Coventry the Rover Co., Ltd., is building two new factories, and the Alvis Car. and Engineering Co., Ltd., has purchased a large area of land for extensions. A manufacturer of machine tools has acquired a site in that town for a factory.
Amongst large works contemplated ire the following :—A swimming pool at Tottenham, to cost £30,000; hospital extensions at Redditcb (£30,000); at Lewisham, London (£30,000) ; and a sanatorium at Whiteabbey (£125,000). A cinema is to be erected at Ledbury (£18,000), and an hotel at Fleetwood (£22,000). Longford are contemplating spending £23,000 on road improvements.
Dumfries Dean of Guild Court has passed plans for the erection of a new slaughter-house, to cost £18,500. It is to be built in Huntingdon Road by the town council. Kincardine C.C. is to construct two reinforced-concrete bridges, one over the Bervie Water at Whitefield, and the other over the Forthie Water at Gyratsmire. William Beardmore and Co., Ltd., Glasgow, has secured the contracts for heavy castings and forgings for the Cuiaarder that is building at Clydebank.
Plans have been passed by Edinburgh Dean of Guild Court for the new swimming pool to be erected at Portobello. It will cost £50,000, with an extra £10,000 for demolition work.
D. and W. Henderson and Co., Ltd., Glasgow, is to build for Messrs. T. and J. Harrison, 'Liverpool, a cargo steamer of about 9,400 tons deadweight ; engines for the vessel will be installed by the builders. Alexander Findlay and Co., Ltd., Parkneuk Work, Motherwell, has received an order for oil tanks of the largest type yet built, to be erected for the Admiralty at Dalnot tar and Rosyth. Two tanks will be erected at each place, each having a storage capacity of 3,000,000 gallons. Between 2,000 and 3,000 tons of steel will be used in their construction.
Plans have been approved for a new block in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, to Cost £60,000. Plans have been passed in Aberdeen for the erection of 130 dwelling-houses, to cost £52,580.
Millheugh Bridge, Larkhall, over the River Avon, is to be reconstructed by Lanark C.C. Road Board. The Fairfield Shipbuilding a:nd Engineering Co., Glasgow, has received a contract from the L.N.E.R. for a new paddle steamer.
Hardware.
The hardware industry, thanks to the continued activity of the building trade, is particularly busy. This applies to all departments, but especially those dealing in door and window fittings, locks and bolts and brass products for water, lighting and heating services.'
London Docks.
The following are the numbers of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from August 31 to September 7 inclusive :— Docxs: King George V, 8; Royal Albert, 9; Royal Victoria, 9; Surrey Commercial, 6; West India, 1; SouthWest India, 2; Tilbury, 6; Tilbury Stage, 2; Millwall, 3. WHARVES: Hays, 7; Mark Brown's, 1; Regent's Canal, 1; Tilbury Jetty, 1.