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Commercial lovement.
Through its work at home and abroad in furthering the
adoption of universally accepted weights, measures and sizes in
industrial production, the British Standards Institution is par-
at ticularly well qualified to gauge the trend of trade, and/a recent
meeting of the Institution one of its members referred to the
hopeful prospects of an expansion in world trade, laying special
stress on the improved position of British export trade. A striking
example of that improvement is afforded by the case of a well-known
make of British motor cars. The manufacturers of this car have
just announced record business from overseas countries during the
first twenty weeks of this year. In that short period the cars
ordered by nineteen different countries abroad outnumbered the
total shipments of cars made by the firm to those countries during
the whole of the year 1938.
nother instance of better trade is the Welsh tinplate
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position. Not only is there great activity in the home trade,
but export business is also expanding. In the first half of June,
shipments of tinplates from Cardiff brought in £250,000, this
being almost double the corresponding amount for last year. number of mills now operating is 264, compared with 116 a year ago,
and production is at 63 per cent capacity, as against only twenty- seven per cent at this time last year. Signs of increased
activity in British trade in general appear in British cable and wireless traffic returns and in the results of municipal transport concerns in Great Britain. For May this year the cable and wire- less index of traffic receipts was nearly 4 per cent higher than in May, 1938. As regards municipal transport, the returns of forty-two passenger enterprises for the first eleven weeks of their financial year - the first of April to the 24th of June - show aggregate receipts of £3,340,000, or an increase of £152,000, as compared with the corresponding period of last year.
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