WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS
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THE4 finish of the Leather and Shoe Trades Fair last week marked the beginning of improved conditions in the
associated trades. There is still an opportunity for those hauliers who have not yet fixed up contracts with the beet factories or farmers to obtain work. Wholesalers who supply drapery and clothing establishments are extremely active. The paper industry is experiencing a general recovery, so far as the volume of trade is concerned.
North-East Coast.
The Newcastle Woodworking Co., Ltd., is reported to be busy. Whickham Urban District Council has instructed Messrs. R. Baxter, of Blyth, Northumberland, to build 80 houses in Swalwell. Messrs. Ball and Thomas, of Norton-on-Tees, are to build 24 houses on the Ellsworth Road site, for Washington Urban District Council, Durham.
Yorkshire.
Orders for dress goods are reaching the woollen factories in fair quantities, and most of the business is in connection with home orders. Some branches of the cutlery trade are busy. Good business in rayon fabric is being done in Bradford. Large orders for materials for tailoring are being placed in Leeds. Mills in the heavy-woollen district keep busy with repeat orders Zor winter goods and expect soon to begin on consignments of spring goods. Leeds boot and shoemakers are busy.
Barnsley Town Council is proposing to complete the ring road from .Pogmoor to Kiegstone. Messrs. E. 0. Weaver, of Mexborough, are to erect 100 houses at Eastwood and 100 at Herringthorpe, for Rotherham Town Council. A junior school is to be erected at Woolley Wood, Sheffield, to the order of Sheffield Education Committee. The builders recommended are Messrs. H. Knowles and Son.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
From Manchester comes the report that the volume of inquiries for rayon goods is expanding. Some good orders for leather have been placed in Runcorn, Warrington and Liverpool. The timber trade is improving, Liverpool merchants reporting an increasing number of orders. Manchester timber merchants, too, have loads to offer.
Hauliers in the vicinity of Runcorn, Widnes and St. Helens should note that there is a considerable improvement in the demand for certain chemicals.
The Metropolitan Tickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester, has an order for electrical machinery valued at £200,000. Some of the forg,lugs for this will be made by Hadfields, Ltd., Sheffield, involving transport between the two towns.
A Belgian concern is starting a new paper mill in St. Helens, and is taking over the Sutton artificial silk works for the purpose. A Canadian company has representatives at Blackburn seek ing premises with a view to starting a new industry. A Dutch firm, Messrs. JBennet and Sons, have taken over part of a mill in Newhall Lane, Preston, for manufacturing incubators and refrigerators. Sixty-four houses are to be built by direct labour at Abingdon Street, Padiham, whilst J. Parkinson and Sons, Ltd., is to erect 18 houses in Barton Road, Lancaster, for the town council. The Unit Construction Co., Ltd., 1, Robert Street, London, W.C.2, is to erect 134 dwellings at Blackstock Street, Liverpool.
Midlands.
The demand for rayon goods from Nottingham is increasing, whilst in Leicester it is generally believed that trade in goods made of rayon fabric and yarn is on the mend. The daily output of shoes from the factories in Leicester, Northampton, Rushden and district, Kettering and Wellingborough has increased, In Leicester, hosiery orders continue to flow freely, The busiest manufacturers are those making fancy underwear, slip-overs and pull-overs. Here, again, most of the orders are for the home market. In Nottingham, the demand for dress laces is developing satisfactorily, whilst there is a steady imorovement in the lace-curtain section.
From Stoke-on-Trent and Hanley comes the report that the pottery industry is improving, and it is anticipated that even better trade will follow the Ottawa agreements. Birmingham Corporation is asking for tenders for the construction of a new three-arch bridge over the River Tame at Chester Road; West Bromwich, involving the demolition of the existing bridge and widening and rebuilding the approaches.
A school clinic is to be constructed in Slade Road, Erdington, for Birmingham Education Committee. A. E. Gilks, Ltd., is to build 16 houses in Harna11 Lane, Coventry, for Coventry. Town Council. A Methodist chapel is to be erected in School Lane, Kettering by Messra. 0. P. Dreves and Son W. J. Simms, Sons and Cooke, Ltd
Nottingham, is to construct 40 houses on the Haregate housing estate, Leek. Messrs. Butter and Sysum, Ledbury, are to build 24 houses on the Brampton Road site, Ross, Hereford. The following tenders have been recommended for acceptance by Stoke-on-Trent Town Council :—Messrs. C. Cornea and Son, Hanley, 90 houses on the .Carraountside site ; Messrs. A. Moss, Milton, 74 houses, and Messrs. Fiuney and Broadhurst, 46 dwellings at Uttoxeter Road, Meir.
Wales.
Porthcawl Urban District Council is considering the, extension of its gas works at a cost of £16,000. Messrs. W. John, Llantrisant, and Messrs. J. Vickery and Sons, Barry, are to build 102 houses and construct the roads on the Buttrills Estate, Barry.
Scotland.
Glasgow wholesalers dealing in drapery, clothes and boots and shoes report plenty of orders for immediate delivery. Further contracts have been placed in connection with the Galloway electricity scheme. The largest is for the construction of a concrete dam across the Blackwater of Dee, near the village of Clatteringshaws, requiring hundreds of tons of cement The contract has been given to Messrs. Shanks and McEwan, Glasgow. Another contract is for a reinforced-concrete aqueduct from the Tongland dam to the Tongland power house. This will be carried out by Messrs. W. M. Taylor and Sons, Glasgow.
There is a scheme afoot to build a cinema, shops and a garage on ground in Glasgow Road, Paisley.
West Country.
West-country makers of flannel and snitings are 'busy and have loads to offer. From Bristol and Kingswood boot and shoe factories comes the report that they will be busy for some time to come. Bristol City Council is to place contracts for the construction of two new sanatorium blocks and for the alteration of the existing Red Cross block, at Ham Green hospital, as well as for the erection of a nurses' home, the total cost approaching .£60,000.
London and Home Counties.
The effect of. the recent Leather Fair has been to speed up sales a little and Bermondsey leather market is feeling the benefit. Considerable activity prevails in the hat trade at Luton.
F. G. Minter, Ltd., of Ferry Works, Putney, London, S.W.15, has been awarded the contract for the erection of a cinema in Commercial Road, Stepney, E. Leytonstone Education Committee is to have a new school built at a cost of £28,654, in Connaught Road, Laytonstone. The borough engineer, East Elam, is to erect a pavilion at the Harts sanatorium for the town council, at a cost of £10,980. Messrs. Beaumont and Taylor, of Henlow, Beds., are to erect 21 houses in the vicinity of West Road, Sandy.