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Sholl Tanks in China,
be supplied by an Indian iron and steel manufacturer. "The 260-foot apan has already been constructed in Calcutta and despatched to the
bridge site, and one of the 360-foot
spans has been erected.
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Soap Factory at Manchester.
The Asiatic Petroleum Corpora- tion has completed the erection of four 108-it, by 33-ft. all storage tanks, equipped with Wiggins roofs, at Pootung, 33 miles from Shang hai, on the Whangpoo River, the scene of the recent hostilities between Japan and China. The new stor} A 10-acre site at Trafford Park ago plan is situated on an island, on the Manchester Ship Canal has and is accessible only by bonts. Mr. (been scoured by the American soap W. A. F. Millinger, mechanical en- company, Procter, and Gamble, un gineer of the Shell Oil Company, which it is proposed to greet a large was in charge of the construction | soap factory, Recently the firm ac- of the plant, which was erected by jquired the soap and fata factory the Yuen Chong Tai Iron Works. of Thomas Hedley and Co., New All of the points of the roofs were catle-on-Tyne. electrically welded by native weld! ers.-O News,
Lighting of Loyang.
Highway Programme.
New Container Factory,
The Co-operative Wholesale So- ciety has acquired the factory at The Chinese Government has de- Worksop; Nolts, of Turner's Glass- cided to appropriate 805,000 for works Company (in liquidation). installing electric light at Loyang, The factory, which has been closed the temporary seat of Government. for over ten years, is to be re
equipped for the production of glass containers for the milk, jam 'and pickle industries. Adjoining The highway programme of the land also has been bought by the Shausi provincial government pro-society to permit of factory de vides a three years pinu for the {velopments. construction of approximately 3,000 miles at an expenditure of 8300,000 (Chinese silver). The work done during 1931-32 is a part of this pro- |
The bid now being made to cap- gramme. Highways planned in additure for Britain the new industry tion to those now under improve of building Diesel-electric railway ment, when funds become available, locomotives is described in the are: The Si-Han road from Armatrong Whitworth "Record" Hanchung to Chengkui, 247 miles; for April. "To-day, at the Scots- the Si-Yu rond from Yulin wood works of Armstrong Whit- to Suiteh, 376 miles; the Si-King worth," it is stated, "will be road from Kingtzekwan to Lung found the largest specialised Dieser chuchno, 203 miles; and the Bi- electric locomotive production în Hin road from Hingaa to Sun-the world. yang, 998 miles.
Pig Iron and Steel in Great Britain.
Diesel-Electric Locomotives.
"Armstrong Whitworth have already built the locomotive parte! of the largest oil-electric motor. coach trains at present in opera- The monthly memorandum issued tion, the 1,200 bhp. trains on the by the National Federation of Iron Buenos Aires Grens Southern Rail. and Steel Manufacturers, Caxton
House, Tothill-street, Westminster, way. In the shops to-day will be Londen, S.W.I., states that there seen the larger 1,700 b.h.p. sets or- wore 60 blast-furnaces in operationdered by that railway company, at the end of May, this total be the result of the successful opera ing identical with that for the betion of the earlier ones. ginning of the month. The produc tion of pig-iron in May amounted be seen in construction at the works **Other oil-electrio locomotives to to 315,300 tona, compared with 218,000 tons in April, and 348,500 tons in May, 1931. The May out pat of steel ingots and castings totalled $10,000 tons, against 433,300 tone in April, and 435,100 tons n May, 1031-ngineering.
Bridge in Barma,
include 15-ton shunting locomotives, heavy 40-ton shunters, an 80-ton locomotive, and four rail coaches main-line goods and passenger for the Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway of India."
Dutch Margarine at Mitcham,
A factory and about 178 meres of The contract for the supply and erection of 10 spans for a bridge ground near Mitcham, Surrey, has Across the Irrawaddy River near been bought by Benninga's Mar Mandalay, Burma, W&5
recently garine Works, & limited company, awarded to a British firm in In- whose headquarters are a Lecu- dia. The bridge will consist of nine warden in Friesland.
A British company will be found- spans, cach 300 feet long, and one span of 200 feet. A 350-foot ser ed with a capital of £50,000, and vien span win he used for erection it is expected that the factory will purposes. The bridge when con begin production next autumn. It pleted will carry the Burma Rail is to have a producing capacity of ways fine across the river from 200 to 300 tons a week. Amarapura to Sagaing. The firm will supply and erect 10,000 tons of steel, 60 per cent of which will
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CONTRACTS SECURED BY BRITISH FIRM.
Tyres and Tubes for Egypt, The Ministry of War and Marine, Cairo, has awarded to the Inenl agents of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., a contract for the supply of tyres and tubes.
Coal for Argentina.
The Rosario Electricity, Works have awarded a contract for the supply of 30,000 tons of duff, and sized coals to the Maris Export and Trading Company, Ltd, of Cardiff. Delivery to be effected over 1933
doal for Egypt.
The Egyptian State Railways have accepted the tender of Messrs. T. Beynon & Co., cool exporters of Landon to supply 240,000 tons of "COL)."
Galvanized wire for Egypt.
The Egyptian State Dailways have placed an order for galvanized wire with Messrs, The Whitecross Co., Ltd., Warrington, Lanes
Electrical plant for Iraq. Contracts have boun named in London for the supply of electrical plant for the public lighting instal- lation of the town of Mom, the inland terminal of the projected: Iraq pipe-line. All the contracts, amounting to about £25,000 have been placed with Briting firms- Malcolm and Allan
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