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Encouraging Signs in Heavy industries and Clothing Trades. More Building Work. Substantial Orders for Cotton Goods
MBE heavy industries, a sontre of general prosperity, are improVing. The demand for clothing is good, which means increased activity in woollen goods. Motorcar manufacturers are busy, and their activity is reflected in many di.rections.
A matter of considerable interest to .hauliers is the tendency for authorities, when placing Jcontracts, to stierolate that local a sources shall be •dnawn upon. wherever possible, for supplies.That inevitably increases the proportion of road haulage necessary, hi comparison with rail.
The activity in the warehouses of wholesalers in the drapery and clothing lines, already mentioned, is still maintained, and, in some cases, increased.
North-east Coast.
The demand for steam coal -is well maintained, both in Northumberland and Durham. Messrs. S. P. Austin and Son, Sunderland, have an order for two colliers. The proposed extensions to the Ingham Infirmary, Smith Shields, will cost £50,000. Durhath proposes to borrow 116,000 for housing at Sherburn Road.
Vickers Armstrongs, Ltd., Scotswood, Newcastle, is to start the manufacture of Bliss presses. At South Bank-onTees, Smiths Dock Co., Ltd., has received an order for four more fishing trawlers. Shipbuilding generally is in a better position, and the iron and steel industry is, consequently, improved.
Mr. G. T. Brown, 51, Fawcett Street, Sanderland, has produced a scheme for 140 new houses on the Gabriels Estate, Sunderland. .Girstavrts Bailey, Ltd., Mr. Milton Swirles and Mr. George Thornton, all builders of South Shields, are contemplating building new houses in the area.
East Anglia.
The Norfolk E.C. is to erect a school at Old Beckenham. Messrs. P. J. Brown, of Scunthorpe, are to erect 50 houses on the Crosby Estate, for Scunthorpe II.D.C.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
Substantial orders for cotton goods have been secured by mills in the Manchester, Bury and Oldham areas. Business in the rayon factories, from being rather quiet, is now somewhat more active. Hauliers in and around St. Helens, Widnes, Runcorn and other areas where the chemical factories abound, should note the tendency for business in acids and tar products to grow.
Prestwich T.C. proposes to build new municipal Offices and medicinal baths at a cost of £25,000. Messrs. TDavies and Son, Clwyd Avenue, Edgeley, are to build 182 houses on the Bates Ley site for Stockport T.C.
Yorkshire.
The clothing factories in Leeds are busy, and corresponding activity prevails in the woollen mills of Yorkshire. The Sheffield trade in permanent magnets for all purposes is increasing, and, as the outcome of recent discoveries is likely to continue in the same state.
Samuel Fox and Co., Stockbridge, a Concern making steel strip, is busy. The demand for iron and steel scrap is encouraging, especially in and around Middlesbrough.
Vickers, Ltd. is to erect two new factories in Sheffield. A sum of £15,000 is to be expended on extensions to the York County Hospital. Bridlington T.C. is to build 122 houses on the South Back Lane Estate. Darlington T.C. is to borrow £34,846 for house building, and is to erect 122 dwellings at Hunden's Lane. Rotherham T.C. is applying for sanction to clear the Prim
rose Hill area. Wakefield R.D.C. is to build 12 houses at Crigglestone, eight at Heath, six at Kirkhampgate, four Netherton and eight at Warrnfield. Messrs. .R. G. Tarran, Ryde Avenue, Hull, are to construct 18 houses in Park Lane, Cottinglain.
Midlands.
The lace trade in the Nottingham area is good, especially the plain-net seation, which is busier than it has been for two years. A further increase in trade is expected in the immediate future, as the fashionable trend is towards the ITiOIX extensive use of lace. The hosiery factories of Leicestershire are quiet, except for sports goods, women's knitted outerwear, and summer underwear.
Spring orders are now being executed in the boot and shoe factories of Northamptonshire. Many factories are still engaged on " coupon " contracts.
• Galvanized sheets are being ordered in small quantities.
There is an improvement in the brassfoundry trade, and the demand for articles in stainless steel remains good, as does that for chromium-plated goods.
A. E. Craig, and Co., Westgate, Peterborough, is to erect a further 100 houses at Pastan. A school, costing nearly £.39,000, is to be built at Bloaters Green Road, Dudley. Additions, which are
estimated to cost £51,000, are to be made to the County Mental Hospital, Berry Wood, Northants.
Smethwick T.C. is planning a twoyears' scheme of house building on the Warley Estate, and has applied for sanction for It preliminary 21:6 houses. Leek U.D.C. is considering tie erection of 126 houses. Messrs. J. Hobson and Sons, Newark Street, Nottingham, are to build 50 houses at Middlefield Lane for Hinelle-y
IScotland.
Scottish makers of hosiery and underwear are better employed, and there hi a fair amount of business in knitted woollen goods for outerwear.
The heavy industries—engineering, ship repairing and ship building—on the Clyde are more active than they have been for some time past.
Arbroath T.C. is considering the erection of 60 houses between Breehin Road and Montrose Road. Ardrossau T.C. is to build 12 houses, and Paisley T.C. is to erect 59 three-storey tenement buildings at Barterholm.
Wales.
The activity in the Welsh coalfields is increasing, but, at the time of writing. there is considerable risk that these favourable conditions may be disturbed by a strike. The fact that the quota for certain collieries in the Swansea area has been increased, in order that they may be in a position to cope with growing demands from industrial consumers, is most significant.
The materials for the 5,000 20-toe wagons which the Great Western Railway Co. has ordered will be obtained locally, as also will much of the steelwork for the plant for the Sir John North power station, Swansea.
London and Home Counties.
The Rylands Estate, Dagenham, is to be developed and 750 houses are to be built there. Perry's (Ealing), Ltd., is to erect 62 houses on the Ashford Farm Estate, Church Road, Ashford, Middlesex. A. new maternity hospital is shortly to be built at Aldershot, whilst county offices are to be constructed at Chichester.
Worthing is to have a new school, in Lytaihnrst Road, so also is Eltham, on _ the Middle Park Estate. Another is to be -built at Hardley, Hants. Kingston T.C. proposes to spend £150,000 on the provision of new municipal offices, a town hall and police courts, and is to build 500 houses, whilst Ieatherhead U.D.C. is to have new offices.
Flats to the number of 75, and seven shops, are to be built on the site at present occupied by "The Stag," Fulham Road. The Kensington Housing Trust is to spend £25,000 on building fiats. A hostel, which will cost approximately £27,000, is to be cons structed near the London Hospital.
Newmarket R.D.C. has received sanction to proceed with the erection of 78 houses. Poplar is to spend £24,640 on three blocks of buildings in the Baker's Alley area. Sutton and Cheam U.D.O. are to build 72 houses at Worcester Park.