WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS
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WHOLESALE houses handling hosiery, mantles, quilts, blankets, and heavy furnishing and woollen-dress goods report steady business, and an important factor, from the point of view of the haulier, is that repeat orders are numerous and small buyers are pressing for quick delivery.
The glove trade is busier and British manufacturers of these articles generally are now beginning to experience more fully the benefit of the import duties. Manufacturers of both woollen and rayon hosiery yarns are busy with supplies for hosiery manufacturers in the Midlands and there are opportunities for haulage.
North:east Coast.
The general demand in Newcastle for sawn and planed timber is good. A large cinema is to be built on the Two Bull Lonnen Housing Estate, Newcastleon-Tyne. Blyth Council' is seeking the approval of the Ministry of Health for the erection of a further 200 houses. Reyrolle and Co., tlebburn, has now reached the production stage in the manufacture of electric vacuum cleaners.
Easington Rural District Council has placed a contract with Mr. G. Fordy, Durham Road, Stockton, for building 200 houses. Longbenton (Northumberland) Urban District Council has accepTed the tender of Messrs. R. Carse and Sons, Amble, for building 104 houses at Forest Hall. P. Holmes and Co., North Shields, will carry out the streets contract.
Jarrow-on-Tyne Town Council is beginning work immediately with the building of 30 houses at Primrose Hill. A start is about to, be made by Houghton-le-Spring Urban District Council with the erection of 75 houses on the Villa Estate. Messrs. G. Cairns, of Herrington, Burn, Durham, have received a contract from Seaham Urban District Council for the building of 50 houses on the Deneside Ettate.
Messrs. A. Monk, of Padgate, Warrington, Lancashire, have received a contract for building a power house in Southend Road, Penrith. Willington Urban District Council is to build 24 houses.
Yorkshire.
The timber docks at Hull are reported to be busy. For the first time for some weeks reports from the engineering districts in Yorkshire, particularly Middlesbrough, are hopeful. Home sales are improving and are expected to expand.
Hosiery spinners are working at full pressure and are still linable to overtake orders, because hosiery manufacturers are taking delivery so quickly. '(See Leicester.) Six houses are to be built in Driffield, for Driffield Rural District Council, by Messrs. Smithweek and Son, Hutton Cnrswick, Driffieid.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
The timber trade in Liverpool and Manchester is distinctly better this week. Flannel factories in Rochdale report the broadening of interest. Business in silk factories at Macclesfield is
much better. There are more orders, and overtime is being worked. This increased activity prevails in all departments. There is also an improvement in the market for rayon goods.
Redpath, Brown and Co. has secured a contract valued at about £16,000 for the supply of steelwork for the Galloway Power Co., and another order for steelwnrk for rebuilding a paper mill at Darwin.
Lloyd and Cross, Ltd., 57, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, is to build 37 houses on a housing site at Bootle. known as Caddick's field. J. Jones and Sons (Woolton), Ltd., Woolton, is to erect 20 houses, also in Bootle.
Midlands.
Steel makers in the neighbourhood of Birmingham are making frequent deliveries of strip steel, especially to motor and cycle manufacturers.
There must be a considerable demand for haulage between Leicester and Bradford, because Bradford spinners of hosiery yarn are working at full pressure to cope with the demand for deliveries made by Leicestershire hosiery manufacturers. Hosiery factories in Nottingham are busy, especially those making heavy underclothing.
In Northampton the boot and shoe trade is experiencing a flow of orders of moderate dimensions ; the improvement noted recently 'is maintained.
The use of up-to-date machinery in the old Mill Close lead mines, Darley Dale, Matlock, has increased production considerably and 800 tons per week is now being mined.
Messrs. J. Bromley, of TVatliog Street, Church Stretton, Salop, are to build a number of houses and farm buildings at Marton Grange Farm, near Baschurch. Messrs. F. Sisson and Sons, Langley Mill, are to build 18 houses in Kimberley, Notts. The Birmingham Crown Cork Works, Ltd., has taken a factory at King's Norton.
Wales.
There is an increasing demand for deliveries of tin-plate from the Swansea area. Aberdare and Mountain Ash Urban District Councils are taking steps to complete the new main sewer from Aberdare to Abercynon, at a cost of 1166,500. An engineering exhibition. is to he held at Greyfriars Hall, Cardiff, from November 23 to December 3.
Eastern.
The East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital is to be extended at a cost of £34,650; the work is to be carried out by V. A. Marriott, Ltd., Ipswich. DePwade Rural District Council has placed orders with a number of contractors for the erection of 104 houses in the Pelham Market district.
Scotland.
The shipping yards of Messrs. William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, are now fairly well occupied with an order for two cross-Channel steamers for the Southern Railway Co. and two destroyers for the Admiralty. Lanarkshire .Education Committee is to erect a new school at Newton.
West Country A concert pavilion to seat 2,000 is to be erected by Weston-super-Mare District Connell, at the Madeira Cove. The Board of Control, Plymouth; is to extend the mental hospital, Blackadon, at a cost of £38,000.
London and Horne Counties.
The timber trade in London is better; firms who have not beeu buying have pow reached the point when their stocks are so low that they must replenish them.
The building trade is active around Newmarket. A new school is to be built at Rye, to the order of East Sussex Education Committee, by Messrs. Bainbridge and Son, 139-141, Terminus Road, Eastbouree. Messrs. Bailey and Goats, Romford, are to build 24 -houses for Sudbury Town Coattail.
New schools, costing £20,000, are to be built at Thorpe Bay, at the instance of Southend-on-Sea Education Committee. A nurses' home is to be built at the Epping Institution at a cost of £11,000. A new church is to be ereated in. Ruislip Road, Ealing, by C. W. B. Simtnonds, Ltd., 75, Shoot-up Hill, Crieklewood, London, N.W.2.
Ealing is to have a new fire station, costing £27,200, and it is to he built by A. and B. Hanson, Ltd., Southall, Middlesex. A block of self-contained flats is to be erected at North Hill, Highgate, for Hornsey Borough Council, and the builders are Messrs. Turner and Payne, High Road, North Finchley. West Ham Council is about to erect a new viaduct between Canning Town and Silvertown, at a cost of £250,000. This will involve some big contracts.