9
Steel
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Stocks
Scrap
End of period Thousand tons
Steel ingots and castings
Steel sheets
Pig iron
Production
Hard coke
Despatches to blast furnaces
Pig iron
Weekly averages
Thousand tons
1938
1947
:
200
15:7
130
448
240
24-8
147
165
452
375
1948
286
26-8
178
199
462
504
1948 July
232
25-9
171
197
452
436
August
271
21.9
174
195
463
449
September
297*
28.2*
181*
200*
474
449
October
297
28.0
183
200
479
483
November
303
27-4
185
203
471
476
December
282*
27.4*
176*
202*
462
504
1949 January
289
29.8
178
195
461
522
February
311
29.7
181
198
447
509
March
313*
29.7*
179*
196*
437
481
April
305
26-2
179
197
434
479
May
316
28-7
187
196
451
529
June..
301*
27.4*
186*
198*
536
630
July
244
24.0
177
190
670
764
August
September
October
Week ended-
November 5
288*
23.9*
182*
191
731
769
306
29.1
185
198*
772
805
⠀
:
307
184
192
778
884
314
12.
306
19 26
313
...
317
187.
196
773
834
187
196
777
840
187
200
775
835
186
773
833
* Average of five weeks.
Table 6
1937
:
1946
1947
1948
1948 April
May
June
:::
July August
September
October
November
December
1949 January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
Week ended--
November 5
12
19
Textile production
Cotton and spun rayon and mixture yarns
Rayon yarn and staple fibre
Woven cotton and rayon fabrics
Worsted
yarn
Woven wool fabrics
Mn. Ib.(1).
Mn. Ib.(2)
Mn. linear
yards(*)
Mn. Ib.(*)
Mn. linear yards(2)
26.5
12.4
79.3
18.7
26.4
15.03
.14.9
38.0
12.1
18.6
15.17
16.9
38-7
12.9
19.3
18.15
19.5
46.1
15.1
22-3
18.40*
19-6
45.9*
16.4
22.9
17.60
18.3
45.9
13.8
19.
18.42
20.0
49.1
15.6
22.6
17-75*
19.1
39.3*
14.6
21.6
17.01
16.2
46.5
13.4
19.7
18.03
20.9
45.4
15.9
24.6
19.53*
20.4
50.1*
15.7
24.0
;
.ވ
19.64
21.0
51.4
16.2
24-1
17.87*
20.3
45.3*
15.3
23.2
18.92
21.3
49.2
16.0
23.4
19-41
21.0
50.9
14.7
23.7
19.18*
24.8
49.8*
17.8
24.6
17.84
21.0
47.6
14.8
21.5
20.21
24.6
53.1
17.0
24.4
17.45*
22.1
48.8*
15.5
22.2
18.51
24.6
40.8
14.5
21.8
17.95
21.7
49.9
15.4
21-8
19.08*
27.0
48.8*
17.4
24-8
20.39
26.0
54.3
16.5
25.1
:::
20.60
20.74
20.75
Bage 814 of 20957
(1) Weekly averages.
(2) Monthly averages or calendar months.
* Average of five weeks.
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Page 8 Merchantshipbuilding and repair and production ofnot är vehicles/
Table 7
Laid down
Merchant shipbuilding and repair(1)
Under construction
Completed
repair, conversion
Motor vehicles(2)
Under- going
Passenger
cars
Commercial vehicles
For Total export
Monthly averages
For Total export
For
Totai export
Monthly averages
or re- conversion in United Kingdom
For
For
For home For home export market export market
or
calendar months
End of period
or
ports. End of
calendar months
Thousand gross tons
period
Weekly averages
Number
1938
1947
1948
102
1948 October
103
November
119
December
137
1949 January
February
March
April
142
May
101
June
July
August
150
September
122
October
42
95
* 32 325 88 53 RON 3
780
72
109
36
8 Aễu N** UJJA 828 88:
1,984
630
79
1,983
677
102
2,036
669
133
2,042
672
113
1,983
677
196
2,000
701
71
1,986
676
103
1,930
657
131
1,987
662
86
28
1,961
669
130
1,935
644
129
1,874
629
130
51
1,921
690
106
47
48
1,950
717
97
25
1,909
695
139
69
: ** ARE 222 249 753 8
1,312
274
18
3,396
2,980
2,539
.969
2,005
34
3,069
4,465
1,852
1,611. 1,658
37
3,011
4,522
2,017
1,935 1,969
18
2,804
4,371
2,060
1,756 2,084
61
3,069
3,820*
1,866*
1,741* 1,736*
2,934
4,600
2,549
1,900 1,992
32
2,874
4,759
2,718
42
2,627
5,288*
2,247*
1,981. 1,882 2,129* 2,008*
2,830
4,537
2,599 1,778 1,947
44
2,773
5,344
2,558 2,033 2,334
46
2,547
5,160*
2,914* 1,627* 2,091*
2,939
3,981
2,398 1,218
1,926
2,570
5,026
2,554 1,962
. 2,009
2,339
5,209*
3,513* 2,213*
2,291*
2,557
.6,116
3,304 2,518 2,422
(1) All vessels of 100 gross tons and over.
(2) Including chassis.
* Average of five weeks.
Table 8
All permanent houses in Great Britain(1)
Number of houses or flats
New contracts
Local authority
On contract
but construction
not begun(2) (end of period)
Local authority
Construction begun
Local authority
Total
Under construction (end of period)
Local authority
Houses completed
Local authorit
new
Total
new
Total
new
Total
new
Total
houses
houses
houses
houses
new houses
1945 and 1946
1947
383,788
146,967
279,936 117,699
110,798 69,669
101,420
262,119
178,516
203,705
154,456
58,414 24,060
58,596 188,835
151,507
252,988
211,935
139,552
94,028
1948 January to
March
19,815
16,037
57,000
48,984
29,370
24,686
231,590 196,799
50,768 39,822
April to
June
32,683
28,223
51,014
43,809
37,710 32,662
211,472 182,792
57,828
46,669
July to
September
42,726
34,898
52,848
43,846
40,149
34,224
197,931
172,570
53,690 44,448
October to
December
59,576
: 49,887
66,084
56,133
44,482
36,492 187,836 162,457
54,577
46,605
1949 January to
March
47,325
36,055
64,140
52,955
47,619
38,523
185,533
157,841
49,922 43,139
April to
June
52,928
41,132
63,678
52,301
51,526
40,594
190,486 159,686
46,573 38,748
July
21,406
*7.832
67,544
55,786
17,139
August...
18,917
15,942
66,455
55,949
18,604
14,138 193,069 162,000 15,485 197,349 165,905
14,556
11,82
14,324
11,58
September
15,870
12,634
65,019
54,031
17,649
14,206
198,206 166,336
16,792
13,77
October
15,022
55,427
13,322
166,365
16,372
13,29
!
(1) New and war-destroyed houses built by local authorities, by private builders, by housing associations and by Government departments. Almagemonbuse art laded.
(2) Allowance has been made for tenders notified as withdrawn and for licences issued to private builders notified as having lapsed, which at the end of September 1949 together amounted to 21,780.