Table 5
12
Steel
Page 543
Production
Steel ingots and castings
Steel sheets
Pig iron
Hard coke
Despatches to blast furnaces
Weekly averages
Thousand tons
Pig iron
Stocks
Scrap
End of period Thousand tons
1938
1947 1948
1948 July
August September
October November
December
1949 January
February March
200
15-7
130
448
:
::
240
24.8
147
165
452
375
286
26.8
178
199
462
504
232
25.9
171
197
452
436
271
21-9
174
195
463
449
297*
28.2*
181*
*200*
474
449
297
28.0
183
200
479
483
303
27.4
185
203
471
476
282*
27.4**
176*
202*
462
504
289
29.8
178
195
461
522
:::
311
29.7
181
198
447
509
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
August
September
:::
244
24.0
177
190
670
764
288*
23.9
182*
191
728
770
306
185
198.
737
805
Week ended—
October 8
15
...
* Average of five weeks.
Table 6
1937
1946
1947 1948
1948 April
May June
:..
:
:::
July August September
October November
December
1949 January
302 307
184
196
740
819
184
193
741
829
Textile production
Cotton and spun
rayon and mixture yarns
Rayon yarn and staple fibre
Woven cotton
and rayon fabrics
Mn. linear
Mn. lb.(1)
26.5
Mn. Ib.(2)
· yards(1) ·
Worsted
yarn
Mn. Ib.(2)
Woven wool
fabrics
Mn. linear
yards(2)
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
19.1
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
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
19.09*
:::
:::
:::
:::
February
March
April
May
June
July August
September
Week ended-
October 8
Page1543 of 1097
Weekly averages.
20-27
Monthly averages or calendar months.
* Average of five weeks.
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Table 7
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13
PMerchant shipbuilding and repair and production of Pogor yehicles 1097
Merchant shipbuilding and repair(1)
Laid down
*Under construction
Completed
Motor vehicles(2)
Under-
going
Passenger
repair, conversion
cars
Commercial vehicles
For
For
For
.or re- conversion
Total export Total export
Monthly averages
Total export
Monthly averages
in United Kingdom
For export
For home For market export
For home market
or
calendar months
End of period
or
ports. End of
calendar months
period
Weekly averages
Thousand gross tons
Number
1938
1947
:
42
780
72
.95
1948
102
1948 July
August
46
101
September
...
.118
October
103
November ...
.1.19
December
137
1949 January
*88
February
*-89
March
#72
April
.142
May
..101
June
$99
July
70
August
150
109
September
122
: ⌘ 885 $s ¥ས ཚསྶ ཆེ་ྲཝ
35
1,984
630
79
1,983
677
102
1,998
675
121
2,035
670
64
37
2,066: 654
87
52
2,036
669
133
21
2,042
672
113
66
1,983
677
196
61
.46
2,000
701
71
1,986
676
103
32
.19
1,930
657
131
34
1,987%
662
86
28
.43
1,961.
669
130
44
22
1,935
644
129
37
1,874
629
130
-51
1,921
690
106
47
48
1,950
717
97
25
:** 428 DAT 222 29 792
1,312
.274
18
3,396
2,980
2,539
34
3,069
::4,465 1,852 1,611
969 2,005
1,658
45
€3,070
4,623
2,370 1,628 1,660
29
3,204
3,207* 1,183*
1,252*
1,188*
53
2,916
5,046*
1,880*
1,984*
1,467*
37
3,011
4,522
2,017
1,935
1,969
18
-2,804
4,371
$2,060 1,756 2,084
3,069
3,820*
1,866* 1,741*
1,736*
2,934
.4,600
2,549 1,900
1,992
..2,874
4,759
2,718 1,981
1,882
42
2,627
5,288*
2,247* 2,129*
2,008*
..2,830
4,537 2,599
1,778
1,947
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
2,339
5,209*
2,554 1,962 3,513** 2,213* 2,291*
2,009
(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
On contract
not begun(2) (end of period)
but construction
Construction begun
Under construction (end of period)
Houses completed
Local authority
Local authority
Local authority
Local authority
Local authority
Total
new houses
Total
new
Total
houses
.new houses
Total
new houses
Total
new
houses
145 and 1946
147
...
383,788
146,967
$279,936 117,699
110,798 -69,669
101;420
58,596
262,119
188,835
*:178,516
- 151,507
203,705 154,456
252,988
58,414
24,060
211,935 139,552
94,028
148 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
44,446
October to
December
**59,576
**49,887 66,084
56,133
* 44,482
+36,492 187,836 162,457
54,577
46,605
149 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
July ...
August... September
*21,406 **18,917
17,832 15,942
$67,544
66,455
;
15,870 12,634 65,019
52,301 $51,526 40,594 190,486
55,786 17,139 14,138 .193,069 55,949 18,604 -15,485 •197,349 .165,905 54,031 17,649 14,206 198,206 166,336
159,686
46,573
38,749
162,000
14,556
11,824
14,324
11,580
16,792
13,775
otal to end of
September... 820,221(2)| 635,064(2)
..
65,019
54,031 *755,202
581,033
198,206
166,336 556,996
414,697
(1) New and war-destroyed houses built by local authorities, by private builders, by housing associations and by Government departments. Aluminium one544tud@97
(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. 37734
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