Perkins to Expand: £285,000 for Works
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TO meet increased production, F. Perkins, Ltd., are to spend £285,000 on building three new bays at their Peterborough factory. The extensions, which will add 80.000 sq. ft. to the floor space, will be completed by the middle of next year. By that time production is expected to rise to 700 engines a day.
Two of the new bays will be used for storing components and finished engines, and the third for transport and handling purposes. An additional extension will be made to the casting-preparation building.
Announcing the plan, Mr. M. I. Pritchard, managing director, stated that engine production for the first six months of this year had increased by 45 per cent. compared with the same period last year.
NATIONAL SPIRIT
A REGULAR grade of motor spirit. " under the brand name National, has been introduced by the National Benzole Co., Ltd. It will replace Dominion fuel.