Steel
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Steel ingots and castings
Steel sheets
Pig iron
Hard coke
Pig iron
Scrap
Production
Despatches to blast furnaces
Weekly averages
Thousand tons
Stocks
End of period Thousand tons
1938
1947...
200
15.7
130
448
1948...
:
::
240
24-8
147
165
452
375
286
26.8
178
199
462
504
1948 January
February March
281
27.7
168
196
416
354
289
27.7
176
197
388
352
291*
25.1*
179*
192*
370
340
April
294
28.7
181
197
373
336
May
293
25.7
184
200
379
336
...
June
297*
27.7*
181*
204*
370
370
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 March
April
311
29.7
181
198
447
509
313*
29.7*
179*
196*
426
481
:
:
305
179
197
434
479
Week ended-
April 9
311
16
309
23
287
30
313
May 7
313
#
Average of five weeks.
176
197
421
484
176
197
415
481..
179
197
420
471
183
197
434
479
187
438
495
Textile production
Table 6
Cotton and spun
rayon and mixture yarns
Rayon yarn and staple fibre
Woven cotton and rayon fabrics
Mn. lb.(1)
Mn. lb.(2)
Mn. linear
yards(1)
Worsted yarn
Mn. lb.(2)
Woven wool fabrics
Mn. linear yards(2)
1937
1946
1947
1948
:
:
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
22.2
1948 January
February March
17.43*
19.6
43.0*
15.6
23.0
18.49
18.8
46.8
14.2
22.2
17.68
19.7
45.3
15.0
20.5
April
18.40**
19.6
45.9*
16.4
22.9
May
17.60
18.3
45.9
13.8
19.1
June
18.42
20.0
49.1
15.6
22.6
July
17.75*
19.1
39.3*
14.6
21.6
August
17.01
16.2
46.5
13.4
19.7
September
18.03
20.9
45.4
15.9
24.6
October
19.53*
20.4
50.1*
15.7
24.0
November
19.64
21.0
51.4
16.2
24.1
December
1949 January
February
March
Week ended-
April 9
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
19.71
16
23
30
May
7
15.61
15.95
19-91
20.14
(1) Weekly average 118.of 366 (2) Monthly average or calendar months.
Average of five weeks,
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Coalmining machinery: Deliveries
Cutters
Number
Colliery tubs
and mining cars (2·
Motor vehicles(1)
Passenger cars
Commercial vehicles
Conveyors
For For home export market
For export
For home market
For export
For home
use
For export
For home
use
Total (For home use)
Weekly averages
Monthly averages or calendar months
1938
1947
1,312
274
1948
::
2,980
2,539
969
4,465
1,852
1,611
2,005 1,658
1948 January
4,198
2,098
1,536
1,895
February...
3,908
1,937
1,423
1,545
March
4,786*
1,684*.
1,498*
1,518*.
April
5,102
1,476
1,284
1,602
May
5,087
1,556
1,493
1,665
June
5,026*
2,206*
1,762*
1,731*
July
4,623
2,370
1,628
1,660
August
3,207*
1,183*
1,252*
1,188*
September
5,046*
1,880*
1,984*
1,467*
October
4,522
2,017
1,935
1,969
40
November
4,371
2,060
1,756
2,084
25
December
3,820*
1,866*
1,741*
1,736*
46
1949 January
4,600
2,549
1,900
1,992
59
February.
4,759
2,718
1,981
March
5,288*
2,247*
2,129*
1,882 2,008*
41
: 20 80 722 892 93 94
22
26
15
28
16
103
24
19
39
16
20
26
April
4,537
2,599
1,778
1,947
54
2 822 2** *** **. 888 22:
76
78
98
99
68
42
47
85
45
68
39
76
44
66
59
72
28
: 28 400 2** 222 +48 848 %
19
203
4,699
38
299
5,060
14
257
5,160
35
281
4,760
46
312
5,190
40
323
4,440
43
268
4,280
24
362
4,890
49
264
4,520
223
5,470
355
5,300
271
5,560
332
5,020
341
6,130
260
5,000
280
5,063
303
5,297
214
4,895
(1) Including chassis.
(2) Carrying capacity in tons.
**
Average of five weeks.
Table 8
All permanent houses in Great Britain(1)
(excluding Aluminium houses)
Number of houses or flats
New contracts
Local authority
On contract but construction
not begun(2) (end of period)
Construction begun
Local authority
Local authority
Total
Under construction (end of period)
Local authority
Houses completed
Local
authority
new
Total
houses
new houses
Total
new
Total
new
Total
new
houses
houses
houses
1945 and 1946
1947
383,538
147,375
279,936 117,449
110,798 69,827
101,420
58,596
262,119
188,835
178,516 203,705
151,507 252,988
154,456 58,414
24,060
211,935 139,552 94,028
1948 January to
March
19,815
16,037 57,158 48,984
29,370
24,686
231,590 196,799
50,768
39,822
April to
June
32,683
28,223
51,172
43,809
37,710
32,662
211,472
182,792
57,828
46,669
July to
September
42,726
34,898
53,006
43,846
40,149
34,224
197,931
172,570
53,690 44,446
October to
December
59,576
49,887
66,242
56,133
44,482
36,492 187,836
162,457
54,577
46,605
1949
January
14,555
11,543
66,463
56,084
13,972
February 15,341
11,576 66,084
55,148
15,367
March
...
17,429
12,936 64,298
52,955
18,280
11,426 186,830 161,013 12,350 186,591 14,747 185,533
14,978
12,870
159,911
15,606
13,452
157,841
19,338
16,817
April
15,851
11,526
62,888
51,139
16,493
12,790 187,789
158,927
14,237
11,704
Total to end of
April
729,665(2) 560,539(2)| 62,888
51,139
666,777
509,400
187,789 158,927 478,988 350,473
(1) New and war-destroyed houses built by local authorities, by private builders, by housing associations and by Government departments. Aluminium houses are excluded.
(2) Allowane had een made tenders notified as withdrawn and for licences issued to private builders notified as having lapsed, which at the end of April 1949 together amounted to 19,224.
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