WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS
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A Feature which Hauliers Find Helpful in Estimating and Anticipating Chances for Obtaining Contracts
THE approach of winter is already having its effect on the coal trade and increased activity is reported. The reports from the beet-growing areas differ according to the locality, but, generally speaking, it. is anticipated that this year's crop will be at least 10 per cent, heavier than last year.
North-east Coast.
The move.nent of timber from Newcastle and West Hartlepool is accelerating.
Further building projects are being commenced. Stockton Town Council has placed a contract with Messrs. S. Coates, Middlesbrough, for building 162 houses on the Sunderland Glebe Estate, at Stockton. Mr. J. R. Seward, surveyor to Whitby (Yorks) Urban District Council. is preparing a plan for 302 houses to be erected on the Gallows Close Estate.
Messrs. H. Binn and Sons, Sunderland, have placed a contract with Messrs. Carruthers and Son, South Shields, for the erection of large new business premises in South Shields.
At Newcastle, foundation stones have been laid of new premises in PereY Street, for the Poor Children's Holiday and Rescue Association, to cost £25,000, the builders being Messrs. J. R. Rutherford and Sons, the Minories Joinery Works, Jesmond, Newcastle. Washington Urban District Council has accepted the tender of Messrs. Balls and Thomas, of Norton-on-Tees, for building 24 houses in Heworth Road. The directors of the Penrith Alhambra Theatre and Picture House have decided to proceed with the construction of a new cinema at Penrith.
Newcastle-on-Tyne City Council has accepted tenders as follow, amounting to more than 1200,000, for the erection of 600 houses :—R. Barron and Co., Ltd., Coundon, Durham, 198 houses on Ferguson's Lane Estate at a cost of £56,820, and roads and sewers at £11,664_ Mr. 3. S. Hetherington, 470, Westgate Road, Newcastle, 150 houses at Scotswood (Munition Cottages) Estate, costing £43,810, and roads and sewers at 19,450. Mr. H. Kindred, Westacres, Newcastle, 158 houses and 94 bungalows on Starafordham Road Estate at £65,059, and roads and sewers at £14,666.
The slight improvement in the coal trade, already notified, is increasing and there is now a steady demand for coal, both for steam purposes and for household supplies.
,Laneashire and Cheshire.
Some of the silk concerns in Mttcclesfield are becoming busier. Rayon factories in Lancashire report that business is improving. Activity in the leather markets of Runcorn, Warrington and Liverpool is increasing. Hardwood timber merchants are busier as the result of the recent furniture exhibition and have loads to offer.
Yorkshire.
The hosiery business in both Nottingham and Leicester is good. There appears to be prtspects of improvement in the iron trade in the Midlands. One indication is Lile relighting, of a blast furnace by Messrs. M. and W. Grazebrook, of Netherton.
The hardware industry in Birmingham and district is reaping the benefit of the tariffs. One concern is now producing a special type of domestic oil cooker formerly manufactured in the United States. Toy manufacturers also are busy. Cutlery and plate concerns report increased business.
A certain amount of local transport is available in Sheffield for the delivery of machinery for making safety-razor blades, also in the transport of steel strip for safety-razor blades. George H. Lawrence, Ltd., Sheffield, has just booked an order for 10,00Q,000 safetyrazor blades. The company's two Sheffield factories are working at full pressure and a third building is being erected.
The position of the woollen trade is improving and plenty of orders are coming to Bradford and district from London. In Sheffield the cutlery and electro-plate trades are recovering. A number of works is well employed and loads are being offered.
Midlands.
The improvement in the hosiery trade, recently noted, is maintained. This applies both to manufacturers of silk hose and those making rayon goods.
A. certain amount .of dealing in second-hand machinery is going forward, which should provide work for local hauliers in Nottingham and district. The lace business is improving. The tendency to colder weather has already made its influence felt in the boot and shoe trade, and most of the factories In Northamptonshire report a definite improvement in demand.
A new factory has just been opened by Whitwick, in Leicestershire, for the manufacture of elastic web previously produced in Germany. Additions have also been made recently to two elastic
web factories at Coalville. Tootall, Broadhurst, Lee and Co., Ltd., is building a big extension to its works at Glossop, for the manufacture of the creaseless cotton and rayon goods.
The sugar-beet harvest has just commenced. Tbere is a larger acreage and a better crop tan last year, and there should be plenty of opportunities for contractors throughout most of the Midland and Eastern counties.
The boot and shoe business in Northampton is better, a similar report coming from Stafford.
Twenty houses are to be built at WeIlesbourne and Long Moisten, to the order of Stratford-on-Avon Rural District Council, by Messrs. 3. Ashton and Son, Binley Road, Coventry.
A new industry, the manufacture of spinning tops and cheap toys, has been started at Walsall.
Halesow, t is to have a new library, whilst Stafford Town Council is to build 80 houses, in the near future.
West Country.
An elementary school is to be built at Conuaught Road for Bristol Town Council by Messrs. E. A. W. Poole and Son. W. T. Nicholls, Ltd., St. Paul's Road, Gloucester, is to build a hostel in Pennsylvania Road, Exeter, for the Exeter University authorities.
Scotland.
The contract has now been placed for the Tongland Station of the Galway water power scheme, the work to cost about £80,000. Tongland is a few miles north of Kirkcudbright.
A site has been acquired • near Glasgow for the establishment of a factory by the Weaver Manufacturing CO., of America, for the manufacture of garage and service equipment.
Hosiery manufacturers in Glasgow are active and are likely to be busier.
Wales.
Cardiff School Buildings Committee has approved schemes for new timberbuilt schools at Ely and Llanishen. New pithead baths are being constructed at the Ocean Colliery, at Treharris, at a cost of over £20,000. Pembroke dock is to be developed as an air base. Old buildings are being removed preparatory to the building of new ones. The sea defences at Barmouth are to be improved at a cost of over 1150,000.
London and Home Counties.
Barking is a growing centre of activity for hauliers. During the past year 17 new industries have been established there.
A new blanket factory is being erected at Witney, near Oxford, for James Walker and Sons, Alirfield, Yorks.
The report from Bermondsey leather market is that business continues to improve and there is a steady stream of loads. Boot and shoe factories are doing a fair volume of business and have loads to offer. Fair business is reported from hat manufacturers in Luton.
Horsham is to have a new cinema to seat 1,170 persons. A new theatre is to be built at Thornton Heath. An hotel is to be erected in Kenton Road, by Charrington and Co., Anchor Brewery, Mile End Road, London, E.1.
Timber merchants report that they are moving a much bigger quantity of stock than they have been doing for some time.
Fourteen houses are to be built at Birchanger, by Newbum and Co., Harlow, for Stanstead Rural District Council. Twenty-six cottages are to be built by S. Shaw, Ltd., 36, Glasshouse Street, London, W., in Great Stanmore, to the order of Hendon Rural District Council, whilst 172 houses and bungalows are to be built at Swindon by A. Groves and Sons, Ltd., Oxford.