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Producers Hire More Transport

28th August 1953, Page 34
28th August 1953
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Page 34, 28th August 1953 — Producers Hire More Transport
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UTETAL. andvehicle manufactun the. United Kingdom were she a general tendency to spend rnor hiring transport in 1950, accordii volume, three of " The Report oi Census of Production," which ha been published by'the Stationery

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Details of money spent by va industries, withthe 1949 figurt parentheses, are as follows:—Blas naces £2,802,000 (£2,175,000); iroi steel (smelting and rolling) £12,94 (£11,258,000); iron foundries, £3,3f (£2,735,000); steel, sheets, £1;91 (£1,722,000); tinplate, £3: (£286,000); 'wrought iron and tubes; £1,951-,000 (£1,717,000); ferrous metals (smelting, rolling, £2,155,000 (£1,900,000); motor Vc and cycles (manufacturing), £1,9 (£1,651,000); motor vehicles and (repairing), £27,000 (£52,000); a manufacture and repair,

(046,000); locomotive manufac (excluding British Railways), £2 (£175,000); railway carriages, a and trams (excluding B.R.), £2 (£287,000); carts, perambulators £104,000 (£100,000).