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Bright Trade Prospects. Many Factory Extensions. Engineering and Coal Trades Improved
Building Boom. Hos iery and Lace Trade Promising. Better Pottery Business Expected THE cold snap has resulted in an increased demand for the haulage ot coal and coke. Details are now available of the large orders for steel and other materials which have been placed by the railway companies. In the New Year it is anticipated that work will recommence on the Cunard liner 534. In the drapery and clothing trade wholesalers are working overtime.
Scotland.
Shipyard business continues to improve, and steel works are busy in consequence. Aberdeen T.C. has approved plans for the building of 159 houses and for extensive alterations to existing buildings.
North-east Coast. • The coal trade in this area is very good. Trade, both in Northumberland and Durham, is better than at any time during the year, and prospects for the future are good. Producers of iron and steel have contracts which will keep them busy for some time. Reports from Wearside and Tees-side regarding shipbuilding orders are good. The iron and steel trade in that area is definitely improving.
Newcastle T.C. is proposing to rebuild the town hail; this T.C. and Durham C.C. are considering a scheme for a new bridge over the Tyne.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
A new oil well has been erected in Liverpool, which is an extension to a corn-milling warehouse. The Cooperative Wholesale Society, Ltd., is extending its mills at Trafford Park.
Quite a number of engineering orders of consequence has recently been placed in Lancashire. George H. Scholes and Co. is to erect a new works at _Wythenshawe for the manufacture of electrical equipment, whilst nine ships are under construction at Barrow. A new textile works is to be erected on a site near Bispham Station, Blackpool.
The bus station at Queen's Road, Manchester, is to be extended, at an estimated cost of £18,000. Southport T.C. has under consideration plans for the erection of a ballroom on the site of the old Winter Gardens, under which a car park will be constructed, the total cost being estimated at £30,000.
Whitehaven T.C. has under consideration a scheme for dock extension. Yorkshire.
Activity in all sections of the woollen industry is fully maintained. York T.C. is to extend the institution infirmary, at an estimated cost of £97,600. Bridlington T.C. is to have a new concert hall on the site of the Victoria Gardens. A new senior school, to cost £30,436, is to be erected at Goole. Messrs. T. Gledhill, Doncaster, propose to develop a building site at Fulford, York, and to erect 320 houses on it.
Midlands.
The state of affairs in the lace industry is promising for the New Year. The underwear branch of the hosiery trade is busy and the demand for winter weights is increasing. Preparations are already being made in Leicester for spring business and the manufacture of bathing costumes has recommenced. Business in silk stockings is excellent.
In the iron and steel industry conditions are a little quieter, but the recent improvement is expected to be resumed and continued so soon as the holiday is over. There is urgent need for the delivery of billets and bars.
Clifford Williams and Son, Ltd., a concern of clothier manufacturers, is opening a large new factory near Birmingham. The Arda Metal Co., Coventry, is also taking over a factory near Birmingham. In the same city a new industry is being started for the manufacture of hearth furniture and bookcases moulded in synthetic resin. Altogether, sonic 30 Birmingham firms are extending their factories.
There is a, steady demand for ironmongery and for domestic heaters arid cookers. It is expected that an provement in trade in the pottery
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dustry will be maintained next year.
Redditch U.D.C. proposes to evelop the Salters Lane estate by the erection of 200 houses. Fifty-two houses are to be built on the Highfield Hall Estate, Chesterfield, for Idelal Estates (Doncaster), Ltd.; 50 houses and bungalows for private enterp • on various sites in the district, and 20 houses at Birmingham Road. Messrs. Fletcher and Sons, 29, High Town, . Crewe, are to erect 88 houses on the Carmountside site, Stoke-on-Trent T.C.
Wales.
The demand for coal is now considerable. The tin-plate business in Swa
iri sea and district is steady and expect +d to improve. A considerable expen iture on road-making is in prospect n Glamorganshire.
London and Home Counties. i Messrs. L. and C. Hardtmuth are io build a new factory, near Croydon. Bournemouth T.C. is applying for sanction to borrow £20,931 for the enlargement of the Pavilion stage. Houses to the number of 106 are to be built ixt Eastleigh by private enterprise.
Elm Farm, Hornchurch, is to be eveloped, the present plans showing a suggested total of 7,451 houses for tie whole district West Sussex C.C. p poses to construct a new one-sp ri ferro-concrete bridge over the Rivr Arun, at Pulborough.
L. Bates arid Son, Ltd., is to e
114 dwellings on the Movers La4ie Housing Estate for Barking T. Messrs. A. M. Nowell, Enfield, are to build 138 houses for Hendon T.C.