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Good News for Hauliers. Big Slumclearance Schemes. Hopeful Outlook in Several Industries. General Boom in Boots and Shoes
TWO important items of news, seemingly of local interest, but actually of country-wide significance, so far as hauliers are concerned, may well serve as preface to our usual budget of information for hauliers.
The first is the Prime Minister's announcement that the Government is prepared to give practical encouragement —and financial support in the shape of a preference in taxation—to oil produced from coal. Coupled with that is the decision of Imperial Chemical Industries to commence at once on the erection of a commercial plant at Billingham-on-Tees, at a cost of £7,000,000. It will employ, directly or indirectly, 12,000 men in its construction.
The other item is the proposal, under consideration by the London County Council, to spend £35,000,000 on a slum-clearance and rehousing scheme, extending over 10 years. Both these schemes will produce a considerable amount of work for road hauliers, either directly or indirectly.
The steady improvement in trade, too, continues, and altogether the outlook may be described as most encouraging. Wholesale houses in the drapery and clothing line report continued good business. The chemical industry is active. A. scheme for continuing assistance to the sugar-beet industry, after the termination of the subsidy, this season, is under consideration and is expected to be disclosed next month.
Scotland.
• A new high school, to be built in Dunfermline, will cost £85,000. A maternity hospital is to be constructed on a site near the West rife Infectious Diseases Hospital. Inverness C.C. proposes to spend 116,850 on roads improvements.
North-east Coast.
The coal trade in Northumberland is fairly active. Ship-repairing is busier on Tyne-side and general engineering in this area is improving. The VickersArmstrong concern is reported to have better trade than for some time. The news concerning Imperial Chemical Industries, reported above, is of particular interest to hauliers in this area.
Yorkshire.
Business in woollens in the home markets is good and the export trade is improving. The engineering industry is still growing-in activity and the demand for scrap metals is increasing. Steel manufacturers in Sheffield and district opine that the improved state of the': trade is likely to continue for some time Darlington R.D.O. is to build houses at Heigington, Blackwell, KilIerby and Mitidletou-one-Row. The York Inurinary lis"to be extended at a cost of no,000. Dewsbury T.C. is to demolish 106 houses in the Dawgreen area, whilst
Knaresborough U.D.C. proposes to build 24 houses. Messrs. J. T. Dickinson and Son are to erect 14 houses for Darlington R.D.C.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
The condition of the cotton trade is stated to be healthy, in that there is an abundance of inquiries and promise of increasing activity. There is good business from overseas and plenty of demand from the home market.
From Warrington, Liverpool and Runcorn. come good reports concerning the leather trade.
Manchester engineers report that the outlook in theistindustry is brighter than it has been for some time past. The English Electric Co. has secured a 12,000,000 contract from Warsaw. John Mowlem and Co. has been awarded the contract for the construction of a ventilating station in connection with the Mersey Tunnel. The work will take 19 months to complete.
Machine-tool workers in Lancashire state that business is improving.
Blackpool T.C. proposes to spend 123,000 on improvements to the Carleton cemetery. Liverpool T.C. is considering slum-clearance schemes involving over 13,000 houses. Wigan T.C. is to spend £33,000 on housing. J. Gerrard and Sons, Ltd., Swinton, Manchester, is to erect 50 houses on the Danefield housing estate for Northwich U.D.C.
Midlands.
Manufacturers of hosiery and knitted goods in Notts and Leicester anticipate a continuation of present activity. Already it is reported that prospects of a prosperous autumn are in sight.
Staffordshire ironworks report a continued growth in the demand for strip, especially from motor-vehicle manufacturers and cycle makers. Galvanized sheets are not in great demand, but the orders are numerous.
The boot and shoe trade is better than it has been for some years, according to reports from Northamptonshire. G. Fletcher and Co., Derby, reports that, as the result of orders secured at the Royal Show, it will he able to keep day and night shifts going until the end of the year.
The Ideal Benefit Society proposes to build two large blocks of flats in Russell Road, Moseley. Ashbourne U.D.C. is to build 118 houses in Clifton Road. W. Edwards, Contractors (Birmingham), Ltd., 79, Colmore Row, Birmingham, is to erect 50 houses at Swift's Corner and 12 at Eynford Road, Coventry, for the T.C.
East Anglia.
Norwich manufacturers of boots and shoes report favourable conditions, and makers of high-grade products, in particular, are finding business quite good. A. E. Craig and Co., Ltd., is to build 100 houses at Wisbech. Boston T.c. is to construct 108 houses at Frampton Place. Thetford T.C. has put forward a slum-clearance scheme to be spread over five years. Ps G. Carter, Ltd., Drayton, is to build the new school at Thorpe Hamlet, for Norwich E.C.
Wales, Tin-plate manufacturers and makers of sheet metals in the Swansea area report a continuance of good business.
Aberdare U.D.C. is to erect houses at Abernant, Cwra Sian and Penywaun. Llanelly T.C. desires to complete the original scheme for the erection of 200 houses on the Penyfan site. Messrs. Hughes, Jones and Buffy, Rhos, Wrexham, are to build 20 houses for Wrexham R.D.C.
West Country.
Dawlish U.D.C. is to erect a pavilion on the Pidgley estate. Bristol T.C. is to build another 100 houses on the Southmead estate and a further 14 at Knowle. Taunton T.C. is to construct 58 houses and flats, and the Tiverton authorities will erect 31.
London and Home Counties.
The stocks of timber in the London docks are low, but fresh shipments are expected and the movement of this commodity is likely to be brisk for some time to come. Deliveries of leather from. Bermondsey market proceed steadily.
The L.C.C. slum-clearance scheme, re ported above, is of interest to London hauliers. Dagenham is to have a library. Two schools are to be built at St. Helier. A part of the Southwark Town Hall is to be reconstructed.
Woolwich B.C. is tit!) build new offices
in Wellington Street. Basingstoke has in prospect a slum-clearance scheme at Church Street. An Esher housing scheme is likely to cost 127,000.
The following amounts indicate the extent to which the London boroughs are prepared to proceed with clearance. schemes :—Bermondsey, £40,000, Bethnal Green, 117,000; Brixton, 1120,000. Deptford, Greenwich, Poplar and Stepney; all have plans under consideration.
Messrs. Pavitt Bros., Aveky, Essex, are to build 132 houses on the Central Park Estate for Dagenham U.D.C.